| Re: Number crunching on the graphics card [message #2087 is a reply to message #2082] |
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| Walter F.J. Müller wrote on Fri, 22 July 2005 16:29 |
True, quite a few people tried to use the crunch power of the processing units embedded in graphics cards. However, I'd put my effort into platforms like the CELL processor.
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The topic is leading to a war 
GPU vs CELL
(I am joking  )
From my, amateur, point of view, the GPU is faster and cheaper solution to get calculation performance. Taking in account war ATI vs. NVIDIA I can try to predict that GPU will grow dramatically those days. This power we certainly should use.
The CELL is definitely good (from papers of IBM) and I REALLY hope that Sony + Co. (IBM and Toshiba, as I remember) will do the job which Intel couldnt (failed so far). I hope they can do something more than PS3  , because we really need a workstation and not a game consol. Workstation with all the attributes, like a proper language + OS.
BTW, last time I read about CELL, there was written that IBM team got Linux ported to cell processors. They tried to introduce those changes to 2.6.13 kernel, I think.
Again, this is just my point of view. Frankly, I am not really familiar with those two architectures and technologies. 
Interesting topic on CELL: http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cell/Cell0_v2.html
1 horsepower = 745.699872 Watts
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