You could probably do a crazy "game of life"! Whole virtual organisms!
I don't know how you would visualize it, or tell if it was ultimately alive!? :) Anyone working on this? Bo On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, J Storrs Hall, PhD wrote: ) 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/?&; ) ----- 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
