On 5/5/06, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
I don't see it as abuse, just optimization.
On Fri May 5 10:57:55 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
> >>
>
