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starbucksaddict   09-22-2006 at 04:59:38 AM

I don't get up to the more respectable forums much, but I thought this may be of interest: link

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Cleeve   09-22-2006 at 05:04:53 PM
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Nifty link.

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raytracer06   09-22-2006 at 05:46:56 PM
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If you're interrested into this, you shoul reaéd about the Gelato rendering engine. it is a 3dsmax/maya plugin developped by nvidia, that uses the GPU to accelerate rendering of photo-realistic scenes. It works with quadro cards but also with geforce since FX 5200.

Edit : here's the link to Gelato homepage

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Slava   09-22-2006 at 06:03:52 PM
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Very nice link. Thanks.

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Doughbuy   09-22-2006 at 06:24:04 PM
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It's real nice, but pretty useless to the average person. I don't know how they're going to run x86 programs on a GPU, but thats why I'm not designing the program.

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strangestranger   09-22-2006 at 06:32:44 PM
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ye GPGPU has been doing the rounds on here for a while especially concerning physics on the GPU. glad to see some people are taking notice.

obviously at the moment limited in scope but something for the future , at least in number crunching anyway.

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raytracer06   09-22-2006 at 06:40:09 PM
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for the average user, the point is not to run a complete app on the GPU, but to offload the CPU from heavy floating point computations... juste like they already do for 3D graphics.there would be some "GPU-accelerated" operations inside the programs

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OldGoat   09-22-2006 at 07:20:12 PM
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Interesting, this could offer a solution to updating older clusters to improve computational output.

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starbucksaddict   09-23-2006 at 12:49:12 AM
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what my sick and twisted mind was thinking is this:
rig up some software that allows you to fill all the slots with grapic cards.
how much gflops can you pull from 3 GX2s and a couple PCI cards.

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GeneticWeapon   09-23-2006 at 01:17:06 AM
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$2000 dollars for the software eh?

They had better hope The Pirate Bay dont get ahold of it :twisted:

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starbucksaddict   09-23-2006 at 04:40:30 AM
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it's software...I give it a month before it's on the streets of malaysia at $5 a pop
and 6 months before there's an open source equivalent

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Dahak   09-23-2006 at 05:29:40 AM
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yes i was reading that the other day.interesting how things work out eh.seems the gpu could be the processing power of the future.

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touya   09-25-2006 at 05:48:02 AM
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well...mayb intel and amd should send their staff to learn from nvidia and ati now???

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starbucksaddict   10-02-2006 at 06:42:01 AM
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t's software...I give it a month before it's on the streets of malaysia at $5 a pop
and 6 months before there's an open source equivalent



not far off

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starbucksaddict   10-03-2006 at 12:41:07 AM
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Folders, get your GPU client now!!

full story and link

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strangestranger   10-03-2006 at 12:46:08 AM
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hmm,, perhaps i will give it ago when i have time tommorow. i don;t fold on this mahcine now cause i want lower temps(evil i know) but i may give it a go for fun and see if i can get both cards working on individual work units.

i might i'll see but hoefully it is fast. great news and great find.

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Anoobis   10-03-2006 at 01:17:22 AM
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Anandtech's got a little diddy on it too.

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starbucksaddict   10-20-2006 at 04:43:04 AM
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there's a closer look at the GPU client here

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derek2006   10-20-2006 at 05:13:47 AM
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Quote :

$2000 dollars for the software eh?

They had better hope The Pirate Bay dont get ahold of it :twisted:



Stole the words right out of my mouth.

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starbucksaddict   10-20-2006 at 05:41:12 AM
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since the FAH client is free, expect other free software soon. and with AMD owning ATi, expect a CPU/GPU hybrid multicore proc within a few years.

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