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Impressive Benchmarks: Sorting with a GPU
An anonymous reader writes "The Graphics research group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has posted some interesting benchmarks for a sorting implementation which is done entirely on a GPU. There have been efforts on doing general purpose computation on GPUs before (previous Slashdot article). However, most of them had generally utilized the fragment processing pipeline of the GPUs which is slower then the default high speed rendering pipeline. Apparently, the above implementation is done using "simple texture mapping operations" and "cache efficient memory accesses" only. There also seems to an option to download the distribution for non-commercial use, though the requirements seem pretty hefty (a very decent nVidia graphics card and the latest nVidia drivers)."
Apparantly, the above implementaion is done using "simple texture mapping operations" and "cache efficient memory accesses" only.
Fry: Magic. Got it.
(Smalltalk bit block transfer) He was always making assmptions about the underlying virtual engine.
He was always getting it wrong too. I have logged thousands of hours and thousands of miles, from Montreal, Canada to Lisbon, Portugal cleaning up after this yobbo. What a fuckup he was.
The opinion was shared too. It got to the point to where we could write code that would detect his code and, as soon as we came across it and confirmed it we would remove it and read the original spec to know what to code.
"Ghoul" was a geek's geek. He stayed married about a week to a co-worker's daughter. Sad in a funy sort'o way.
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I don't think an AC will get a beer...
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
a very decent nVidia graphics card
So is that like "average", except "very average"?
I don't care about any general purpose computing with GPU.
What I want is a CPGA card, that is a Color Porno-Graphic Adapter, which accelerates drawing spherical triangles (aka Bolyai-Lobatschevskiy geometry).
That way we can get decent-looking boobs and asses in the upcoming Lara Croft game, composed from a few dozen spherical triangles instead of thousands of flat ones. That will result in 1000+ fps at 1600x1200 resolution.
I am truly fed up with those homonculus-looking bitches in GTA San Andreas. They are as desirable as Frankeinstein or an ork.