Yep. I have a homebrew version of this (pair of 8800s as a compute server) that I'm experimenting with. Mostly as a vision preprocessor, which it's clearly suited for. They have a subset of BLAS and simple FFT for them, and are growing the repertoire rapidly. I'm fairly sure you could do GAs very well IF you can fit the individual in the VERY memory-limited parallel threads. I'm personally looking at them for more straight-forward vector processing, for which they are very well adapted.
Josh On Thursday 21 June 2007 10:17:41 am Benjamin Goertzel wrote: > This looks interesting... > > http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html > > Anyone know what are the weaknesses of these GPU's as opposed to > ordinary processors? > > They are good at linear algebra and number crunching, obviously. > > Is there some reason they would be bad at, say, MOSES learning? > (Having 128 program trees evaluated on 128 processors, against the > same knowledge base stored in RAM, would be nice. Though I guess > processors contending for the same RAM could cause some slowdown > unless properly managed.) > > Unlike the PS3, these processors come with a decent amount of onboard RAM. > > -- Ben > > ----- > 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/?&; > > ----- 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=e9e40a7e
