From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) In-Reply-To: <10b3044aa926a9c4115682ad88c1983a@quanstro.net> References: <10b3044aa926a9c4115682ad88c1983a@quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <999CCCBC-2504-4212-9629-E63C2A79BCA5@telus.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] nvidia scrolling performance Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 08:56:36 -0700 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4d42505a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEW3W0pJeHo/Fbu1wRAoOzAJ9C4d5WBnPm4hH1scoknQI1sFfuTgCgqC9c Ft6mIE9ogrlaD9ltrNkMmjg= =qWgd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----