Re: [9fans] nvidia scrolling performance

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 5/5/06, 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.
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Eh, nvidia's working on making the GPUs more accessible (via
compilers, kind of like Cell) for more general purpose computation.

The problem with FPGA, GPU, and "non-local" coprocessing cores is
usually the moving of data to them fast enough.  Cell shouldn't have
this problem and with the new hypertransport stuff coming out, it
looks like one can easilly do NUMA like things inter-chassis too.

I don't know if this is cost effective, but streaming parallelism to
special coprocessors can be a big win in HPC.

Dave

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