From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
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 08:56:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <999CCCBC-2504-4212-9629-E63C2A79BCA5@telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10b3044aa926a9c4115682ad88c1983a@quanstro.net>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-05 15:56 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 [this message]
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
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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