KVR Audio

antonis2007 · Post by **antonis2007** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 8:46 pm

What would you want from it?
Time to dream bigger.
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HPC Advisory Council Names University Award Winner
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 28 - The HPC Advisory Council, a leading worldwide organization for high-performance computing research, development, outreach and education, today announced that Antonis Karalis has received the prestigious HPC Advisory Council University Award 2012 for advanced research in the subject area of music in high-performance computing. One of the HPC Advisory Council's main activities is community and education outreach. The University Award program is an outgrowth of this, and is intended to enhance students' computing knowledge-base.

"The council award program was designed to enrich world-wide university research activities by utilizing and maximizing the high-performance computing capabilities and the council's expertise"
"With the goal to develop and create HPC clustering solutions that further enable the future of music production, Mr. Karalis's submission 'Music Production using HPC' stood out amongst all of the submissions," said Gilad Shainer, Chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. "We congratulate Mr. Karalis and look forward to providing him the tools and cluster resources necessary to complete his research. We look forward to reviewing proposals for 2013, and working with the winners to highlight their research and further advances in HPC technology and education."

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JD Gaffe · Post by **JD Gaffe** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:15 pm

I want it to make all the music for me.

Winstontaneous · Post by **Winstontaneous** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 10:47 pm

Ha, just a few weeks ago I was browsing the Cray website and wondering if anybody's harnessing that kind of power for music software.

Imagine the track/latency/plugin count on something like this.

Chickenman · Post by **Chickenman** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:27 pm

Yeah you could have a lot of plugins... still, it's single threaded performance would be less than an overclocked cpu from a couple years ago.

Ashe37 · Post by **Ashe37** » Thu Dec 13, 2012 11:52 pm

Its single threaded performance is going to be better than an overclocked CPU from a few years ago, its running current Xeon CPUs.

Seriously, a system like that, your main problem is going to be latency.

Chickenman · Post by **Chickenman** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:11 am

Sandy bridge was demoed in 2009, @ 5ghz it is better single/multithreaded than a current Xeon(with same core count). Ivy is better still but has overclocking issues due to Intel changing IHS installation process.

Overall having 50000000000 CPUs running slowly isn't going to make AUDIO related tasks any better and a musician would be better served by a consumer part that they tweaked.

People that use intensive multithreaded plugins would obviously benefit but for consumers, porting of these plugins to GPU's is a better step.

Don't forget that you can't just install windows on a Cray and kickarse from the start, super computers are good at what they do because of custom solutions and custom code.

What I am trying to say is that the ideal DAW scenario isn't clustering of many CPUs, it's having 8-12 threads running at higher clocks in a manageable environment.

Now, having that many cores for rendering aftereffects compositions would be awesome.. but the Cray would still be in the shed to handle offline stuff and not running the personal workstation.

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:51 pm

Series calculations will always be held up by a single thread, but in parallel many series calculation threads can be done. So, if one were looking to synthesize every instrument in a song, they could make a LOT of them, but the complexity of each one is limited by the single threading performance.

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:52 pm

JD Gaffe wrote:I want it to make all the music for me.

Me too

But I can't just clap my hands and have a nice song to listen to.

LOL JUST KIDDING

antonis2007 · Post by **antonis2007** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:36 pm

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lotus2035 · Post by **lotus2035** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:48 pm

JD Gaffe wrote:I want it to make all the music for me.

Jancivil will be first in line to buy that mofo.

lotus2035 · Post by **lotus2035** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:49 pm

I want it to produce toasted ham and cheese sandwiches from the loading tray.

antonis2007 · Post by **antonis2007** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:24 pm

Let's explore using some NVIDIA HPC juice !

Realism & Quality drive up computational complexity while
emulating non-linear characteristics in digital audio

Acustica Audio Engine is CUDA-Enabled and designed to access to the tremendous processing power of NVIDIA GPUs.

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 2:43 am

I am looking forward to some examples!

Ashe37 · Post by **Ashe37** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 5:04 am

how did they solve the problem of latency on the GPU memory? that seems to be the universal excuse among plugin developers.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 1:16 pm

lotus2035 wrote:I want it to produce toasted ham and cheese sandwiches from the loading tray.

might even be possible, given the amount of heat that baby would be putting out!

and...

ooh! lights

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