Supercomputing Power Hits the Desktop, Minus the Software
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From: NV55 on 20 Jun 2008 18:07 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2008/06/gpu_power --
From: Neal on 24 Jun 2008 13:50 On Jun 20, 3:07 pm, NV55 <nvidian...(a)mail.com> wrote: > http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2008/06/gpu_power Its certainly neat where computing has been going as of late... but I don't believe we are even close to the knee in the curve in providing high performing parallel devices to consumers. Applications, power, cost, etc... we aren't there yet. Maybe in 6-8 years it will be different... but it seems right now the only application for most people that requires that much compute is games. --
From: krw on 24 Jun 2008 20:03 In article <e6fe1a13-f0e9-4042-bfe3-d890e739abf2@ 34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, nealcrago(a)gmail.com says... > > On Jun 20, 3:07 pm, NV55 <nvidian...(a)mail.com> wrote: > > http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2008/06/gpu_power > > Its certainly neat where computing has been going as of late... but I > don't believe we are even close to the knee in the curve in providing > high performing parallel devices to consumers. Applications, power, > cost, etc... we aren't there yet. Maybe in 6-8 years it will be > different... but it seems right now the only application for most > people that requires that much compute is games. Dunno, the more power thrown at the desktop the slower they get. I don't play games but could certainly use a 2x response improvement. -- Keith --
From: Ken Hagan on 25 Jun 2008 12:25 On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:03:29 +0100, krw <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzz> wrote: > Dunno, the more power thrown at the desktop the slower they get. I > don't play games but could certainly use a 2x response improvement. If you are using a "modern" desktop manager, you are playing a game. --
From: krw on 26 Jun 2008 12:43
In article <op.udaspy1lss38k4(a)khagan.ttx>, K.Hagan(a)thermoteknix.com says... > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:03:29 +0100, krw <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzz> wrote: > > > Dunno, the more power thrown at the desktop the slower they get. I > > don't play games but could certainly use a 2x response improvement. > > If you are using a "modern" desktop manager, you are playing a game. 1) Perhaps true, but quite besides the point. 2) The only game that pays as much as they're paying me is "business". 3) Windows is *not* in any way a game. -- Keith -- |