-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nicholas wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 22:30 +0100, Hamish wrote: >> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 09:14, Dieter wrote: >>>> and hardware vendors who sell servers don't give a damn about >>>> graphics--the unaccelerated nv driver is more than enough. >>> Real servers don't need or want graphics at all. RS-232 is >>> preferred. Except for graphics/video servers of course. >>> >> Not strictly true... I've worked on backend servers that used the >> graphics hardware to render the pictures (Graphs etc) for the >> application. Hardware assist meant they could serve many more >> users that if the work was done on CPU alone... > > I have never used this before, but offscreen rendering is very > useful, and I could easily see this coming in very handy in the > coming years. > >> Graphics hardware isn't always about rendering to a screen... >> (Although I admit it's one of the few times I've ever seen this >> done, I think it's kind of cool. Although was skeptical at the >> time :) >
I haven't seen brook, but I remember that Vlad, the guy who started the original r300 project was working on using the r300 chips to perform calculations for physics... Sorry, can't remember the exact subject he was interested in, but it was kinda cool... Maybe we could look as a side project of a physics processor? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEtLgH/3QXwQQkZYwRAhxqAJ46qVvVEUBWfHv7LWR7bG9M11xHIwCeJTVd kdXGx6nbz25Xrze8pgY5XqE= =OECB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
