Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

[Hazen Valliant-Saunders]

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 <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>> >> 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.
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>> http://funroll-loops.info/
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> According to your logic, Nvidia and ATI(AMD) are ricers....?
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> http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_toolkit.html
> http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15886
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> Or maybe the folks at CMU are ricers?
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-source.html
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> Surely these folks at StonyBrook are ricers?
> http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/fir/
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> Not to mention these folks at Stanford,
> http://novembertech.blogspot.com/2006/10/stanford-atis-gpu-can-calculate-much.html
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> And all of these scientists are ricers?
> http://gpgpu.org/
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> I count myself proud to be among this company
> of "ricers" as you put it......
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> James
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