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Date: Fri,  5 May 2006 09:42:44 -0700
From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nvidia scrolling performance
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On 5/5/06, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> conversly, isn't doing gpu work on the cpu cpu abuse? ;-)
> i mean we've got to have the proper caste system for processors
> and unwashed masses of special assemblers.
>
> - erik
>

I don't see it as abuse, just optimization.

> On Fri May  5 10:57:55 CDT 2006, plalonde@telus.net wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > >>
> >
>