Nvidia’s Titan V giant: $3000 buys you ‘most powerful PC GPU ever’
December 8, 2017 by admin
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Nvidia says the Titan V has nine times the power of its predecessor, the $1,200 Titan Xp.
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Nvidia has announced the Titan V, the “world’s most powerful PC GPU”. It’s based on Nvidia’s Volta, the same architecture as the Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs behind Amazon Web Service’s recently launched top-end P3 instances, which are dedicated to artificial-intelligence applications.
The Titan V for PCs is also aimed at researchers and scientists and was unveiled at the big Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) AI conference on this week in Long Beach.
The graphics card consists of six graphic processing clusters, featuring 21.1 billion transistors, 12GB memory, and 640 Tensor Cores, which are capable of performing 110 teraflops, or a 110 trillion floating-point operations per second.
That performance trounces one of Nvidia’s best gaming GPUs, the Maxwell-based GTX 980, which is capable of 4.6 teraflops, as well as the 11 teraflops that the newer Pascal-based GTX 1080 Ti is capable of. At $2,999 it also costs about six times as much as those top-of-the-line gaming GPUs.
Nvidia says the Titan V has nine times the power of its predecessor, the $1,200 Titan Xp, and double the energy efficiency of Pascal GPUs. The gear is fabricated on TMCS’s 12-nanometer FFN manufacturing process.
“Our vision for Volta was to push the outer limits of high-performance computing and AI. We broke new ground with its new processor architecture, instructions, numerical formats, memory architecture and processor links,” said Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang.
“With TITAN V, we are putting Volta into the hands of researchers and scientists all over the world. I can’t wait to see their breakthrough discoveries.”
The Titan V has a similar form factor to its gaming GPUs but comes in black and gold. As with the Titan Xp, each customer can only purchase two units.
Nvidia is also making its recently released AI software packages available via its GPU cloud.
The growth of AI and adoption of GPUs in the cloud to support AI applications have been a major win for Nvidia. Gaming is still Nvidia’s biggest market by revenue but datacenter income from the likes of Microsoft, Baidu and AWS have seen the sector’s revenue more than double over the past year to $500m.
Nvidia’s video details the Titan V specification.
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Saints’ Drew Brees on Thursday game injuries: ‘It’ll be addressed’
December 8, 2017 by admin
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ATLANTA — Drew Brees joined the loud chorus of NFL players railing against playing Thursday night games after his New Orleans Saints lost six players to injuries during a 20-17 loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday night.
“It’s 100 percent a product of playing on Thursday night,” Brees said. “Do you understand what guys’ bodies go through in a game? And then to have to turn around four days later and to play? Look at the injury studies, they’re off the charts. They’re off the charts. So is this smart as it pertains to guys’ health and safety? No, absolutely not.”
Players around the league have been vocally critical for years about playing with just three days’ of rest between games. Last month, Seattle Seahawks receiver Doug Baldwin said Thursday night football should be “illegal” after his team suffered a barrage of injuries, including cornerback Richard Sherman‘s torn Achilles.
In this latest Thursday game, Saints running back Alvin Kamara and guard Senio Kelemete left the game with concussions; linebacker A.J. Klein and safety Kenny Vaccaro left early with groin injuries; defensive end Trey Hendrickson left with an ankle injury and receiver Ted Ginn Jr. left with an unspecified injury late in the game.
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Breakout Saints running back Alvin Kamara was removed from New Orleans’ 20-17 loss to the Falcons on Thursday night after taking a shot to the helmet and staggering off with a possible concussion.
Four other Saints players left briefly with injuries but returned to the game.
“I can sit here and tell you that no player likes putting himself at risk on four days’ rest to come and put their bodies through what they put them through in a game,” Brees said. “So you hope that it’s addressed [this offseason], you hope that it’s talked about, and you hope that something is done about it.
“When you see guys go down, when you lose guys for what you think is unnecessary just because you put ‘em at a much higher risk in such a quick turnaround, that gets you upset.”
Brees, who was a longtime players’ union leader, was asked if he plans to use his standing to speak up loudly on the issue.
“Yeah, absolutely,” Brees said. “And it’ll be addressed.”
Brees wasn’t the only Thursday critic. Coach Sean Payton hinted at his frustration by throwing an injury question back at the room of reporters.
“What do you guys think? Seriously, speak up,” Payton said. “What do you guys think? Why do you think there were so many injuries tonight? Anyone?”
Payton just sighed when someone suggested the short week as the reason.
“Anyway, credit Atlanta. They came back, showed some heart, got a big win, and it was disappointing for us,” said Payton, who credited his team — especially the defense — for fighting so hard despite all the obstacles on and off the field. Other players chimed in, too, including Vaccaro, who said his body didn’t have time to recover from the scar tissue being broken up from the pre-existing adductor injury this past Sunday.
“Your body’s just not back,” Vaccaro said. “Muscle injuries, especially soft-tissue injuries, come from fatigue, and when you’re playing that close after a game on Thursday, chances are higher.”
Payton’s frustration spilled over onto the field Thursday from both the injuries and penalties that mounted against his team throughout the night. The Saints were flagged 11 times for 87 yards, including the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that Payton himself drew for yelling at officials on the field in the final minutes while Atlanta was running out the clock.
“I called a timeout, and then he asked me again and I said, ‘I’ve already called the timeout.’ I probably said it with a little more oomph or vigor than I was supposed to, but I had enough. I gotta be smarter than that,” Payton said.
Payton was also particularly upset about an alignment penalty that wiped out a Saints field goal before halftime — when he said it’s normal protocol to give a player a warning in that situation, especially since it was a backup who had just recently entered the game (because of injury).
“It was just one of those games. Listen, I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve never been a part of a game like that,” Payton said, specifically referencing the flags thrown. “And it was frustrating. But our guys, we’ll bounce back.”