From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nvidia scrolling performance
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 11:07:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445B8634.7050306@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <999CCCBC-2504-4212-9629-E63C2A79BCA5@telus.net>
Paul Lalonde 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.
uh, there's no real difference between GPU computation and SPU
computation, saving there's more of them SPUs. All the problems apply.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-05 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-05 15:46 erik quanstrom
2006-05-05 15:56 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-05-05 16:01 ` David Leimbach
2006-05-05 16:21 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-05-05 16:59 ` David Leimbach
2006-05-05 16:05 ` Wes
2006-05-05 17:07 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2006-05-05 17:30 ` Paul Lalonde
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-05 18:08 erik quanstrom
2006-05-05 17:22 erik quanstrom
2006-05-05 17:32 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-05-05 16:08 erik quanstrom
2006-05-05 16:42 ` David Leimbach
2006-05-01 0:52 erik quanstrom
2006-05-01 1:00 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-05-01 0:30 erik quanstrom
2006-05-01 17:44 ` Russ Cox
2006-05-01 17:57 ` Artem Letko
2006-05-01 19:02 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-29 21:39 erik quanstrom
2006-04-30 4:00 ` jmk
2006-04-30 16:10 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-30 18:12 ` Steve Simon
2006-04-30 22:34 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-05-01 6:52 ` Nigel Roles
2006-05-01 19:58 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-05-01 20:10 ` David Leimbach
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