GPU Super computer

[starbucksaddict]

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

 

[cleeve]

Nifty link.

 

[raytracer06]

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

 

[Slava]

Very nice link. Thanks.

 

[Doughbuy]

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.

 

[raytracer06]

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

 

[OldGoat]

Interesting, this could offer a solution to updating older clusters to improve computational output.

 

[starbucksaddict]

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.

 

[GeneticWeapon]

$2000 dollars for the software eh?

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

 

[starbucksaddict]

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

 

[Dahak]

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.

Dahak

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[touya]

well...mayb intel and amd should send their staff to learn from nvidia and ati now???

 

[starbucksaddict]

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

 

[starbucksaddict]

Folders, get your GPU client now!!

full story and link

 

[Anoobis]

Anandtech's got a little diddy on it too.

 

[starbucksaddict]

there's a closer look at the GPU client here

 

[derek2006]

$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.

 

[starbucksaddict]

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.