New GPU Cluster

Many thanks to NVIDIA for supplying GPU hardware for our formidable new “Kraken” GPU cluster, which features five GTX280s, five Tesla C1060s and two Tesla S1070 quad GPU 1U rack modules.

We’ll be making these systems available for the students of MIT’s “CUDA @ MIT” independent activities period, in order to help spread the joy of GPU to our friends down the river.

Check out our work at ECCV 2008

An analysis of how well a simple baseline model performs on currently available face recognition datasets was just accepted to the “Faces in Real Life” Workshop at the European Conference on Computer Vision (in Marseilles). As we had previous suggested for one popular object recognition test set, many face recognition sets may simply not be that hard. We will link to the paper when it becomes available, and check us out if you are coming to the workshop.

We've been Slashdotted

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Apparently slapping 16 GPUs in a box gets people’s attention. See our Flickr gallery for the glamor shots, and check out the project page and specs.