Darren,
these articles are still somewhat short on detail, so it's hard to tell.
A lot of the "new features" listed there won't have any impact on the
suitability of the GPU for Go, because they do not change the method of
computation (e.g. doubling floating point precision is irrelevant).
Having said that, the "parallel data cache" they alude to may be
significant. If this is going to enable the construction of data
structures such as linked lists, or bring down global memory access time
significantly, then I believe the performance of playout algorithms on
the architecture will shoot up.
Christian
On 23/10/2009 09:28, Darren Cook wrote:
I was reading a linux mag article [1] saying that the latest nvidia GPUs
[2] solve many of the problems of using them for supercomputing problems.
There was a thread [3] here in September about running go playouts on
GPUs, where the people who had tried it seemed generally pessimistic. I
just wondered if this new Fermi GPU solves the issues for go playouts,
or don't really make any difference?
Darren
[1]: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7575
[2]: http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1254288141829.html
[3]: Starting here:
http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2009-September/019422.html
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