On 5/6/06, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:

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Aw, but I'd claim all that fancy 3-D graphics stuff is real
computation :-)
But yeah, GPU abuse for general purpose computation is just plain
scary.  I thank my lucky stars that there is plenty of FLOPS to go
around in the Cell's SPUs.

Paul

On 5-May-06, at 8:46 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:

> if i were doing real computation, i wouldn't use a gpu i'd use a
> cpu. ;-)
>
> - erik
>
>> 8G/s? Nowhere near enough.  Enough for text, but try doing real
>> computation using that GPU...
>> PS3 is running 25G/s bi-directional.  Those bits move.
>>

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