With unit processors approaching up to 128 Cores on a single GPU I can see why the guys at all those institutions want to put EL lights in their big hawking 4 card SLI rigs?
That's like 1600 Cores on a single system, Even Blue Gene L only has Dual Core PowerPC 440's, whith AMD's 4870 having 800 SPU's on a single die, the X2 has two of them; oh and did we mention they are cheap? (Blue Gene cost 100 million, right now a 4870x2 is only $500). No they would never be useful for anything other then rendering bouncing bobbies! ;) On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > >> >> One *BIG* difference is when the GPUs on video cards are used >> >> as co-processors on systems. ATI and Nv are working on making >> >> general purpose "C" languages for programs to take advantage >> >> of the power of the GPU. Look for Gentoo to beat the other >> >> distros, by the very nature of how it compiles code for >> >> everything. > > >> http://funroll-loops.info/ > > > According to your logic, Nvidia and ATI(AMD) are ricers....? > > > http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_toolkit.html > http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15886 > > Or maybe the folks at CMU are ricers? > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-source.html > > Surely these folks at StonyBrook are ricers? > http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/fir/ > > Not to mention these folks at Stanford, > http://novembertech.blogspot.com/2006/10/stanford-atis-gpu-can-calculate-much.html > > > And all of these scientists are ricers? > http://gpgpu.org/ > > > I count myself proud to be among this company > of "ricers" as you put it...... > > > > James > > > > -- Hazen Valliant-Saunders IT/IS Consultant (613) 355-5977
