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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  5 May 2006 11:08:42 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] nvidia scrolling performance
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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

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.
> >>
>