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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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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