On Sunday 06 May 2007 11:13, Derek Zahn wrote: > J Storrs Hall, PhD. writes: > >http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-AI-Creating-Conscience-Machine/dp/1591025117 > > Cool! I just pre-ordered my copy!
Thanks! > >Look at Brook (http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/brookgpu/) ... and > >GPGPU in general (http://www.gpgpu.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi). > > I'm also just beginning my experimentation with modern hardware, and just > got > a new machine with two Nvidia 8800GTX boards. That G80 architecture is > moving > explicitly to a GPGPU architecture (by which I mean it doesn't have > separate vertex and pixel processors, just 128 general-purpose processors > per card. They > have some pretty decent programming tools for it (called "CUDA"). I think that CUDA is a specialization of Brook for NVIDIA, but since my card is NVIDIA too ... > my new machine is an intel quad core at 2.7 ghz. With each one executing a > 4-wide > simd instruction (single precision), that adds up to 43 gflops peak, Intel claims 64 GFlops on a dual Clovertown on actual tests (30k square matrix ops using linpack). NVIDIA claims half a teraflop for the 8800 gtx. You need an "embarassingly parallel" problem, tho. I'm intending to do lo-level vision on (one) 8800 and everything else on my (dual) Clovertowns. Do you have any particular architectures / algorithms you're working on? Your approach and mine sound like there could be valuable shared effort... Josh ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
