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I just want to know if I can use a tesla based server (with a Tesla GPU to be clear) as a web server just like a normal server for example by installing apache and mysql?

If it's possible, I would like to know if it will use efficiently the power of the Tesla GPU, doing almost the same work as the CPU??

Thank you for your answers :)

Cedric
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  • I assume the server in question has GPUs in addition to normal CPUs? Software typically must be specially written to run on GPUs. Apache and MySQL have not been -- they'd run on the CPUs without utilizing the GPUs at all. – Frank Farmer Jan 28 '12 at 01:50
  • Ohh I see! So unless I build a php server client from ground up, its useless to get one of those servers. Thank you for the informations – Cedric Jan 28 '12 at 03:45

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The problem is rather to have a Web server use Tesla CPUs. This would require using specialized compilers or libraries (Cuda, OpenCL, etc.).

Gil
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