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New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached

Posted by kdawson on from the here-process-this dept.

Vigile writes "Multi-GPU technology from both NVIDIA and ATI has long been dependent on many factors including specific motherboard chipsets and forcing gamers to buy similar GPUs within a single generation. A new company called Lucid Logix is showing off a product that could potentially allow vastly different GPUs to work in tandem while still promising near-linear scaling on up to four chips. The HYDRA Engine is dedicated silicon that dissects DirectX and OpenGL calls and modifies them directly to be distributed among the available graphics processors. That means the aging GeForce 6800 GT card in your closet might be useful once again and the future of one motherboard supporting both AMD and NVIDIA multi-GPU configurations could be very near."

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  1. No strings? by Plantain · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there's no strings, how are they connected?

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    1. Re:No strings? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's a GPU orgy. They'll find a way to connect.

    2. Re:No strings? by x2A · · Score: 5, Funny

      The theory will fit, there will be strings, we'll add more dimensions if we need to.

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    3. Re:No strings? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Tubes. Defiantly a series of tubes.

    4. Re:No strings? by philspear · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm sure there's a superstring theory joke in here somewhere. Unfortunately I don't understand string theory. I guess it's okay, since apperantly no one else does either.

      I guess I'll just reference XKCD

      http://xkcd.com/171/

  2. Math Coprocessor by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ack! Will this outdate my math coprocessor?

    1. Re:Math Coprocessor by 9Nails · · Score: 2, Funny

      Your math co would still be good, but your turbo switch will need to be set to off.

  3. obligatory ... by bwthomas · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...

    All your GPU are belong to Lucid!

    (sorry guys)

  4. Re:AMD and NVIDIA?? by Spatial · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shit, it's last year already?

  5. no Strings attached by Daimanta · · Score: 4, Funny

    what is attached though:

    ints
    booleans
    longs
    short
    bytes

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    1. Re:no Strings attached by lolwhat · · Score: 3, Funny

      what is attached though:

      ints booleans longs short bytes

      what about lists, you insensitive clod!I call lisp discrimination.

    2. Re:no Strings attached by MadnessASAP · · Score: 2, Funny

      What about tuples you insensitive Python hater!

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  6. No strings. by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    But it looks like it will need plenty of threads to work though.

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    If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
  7. Q: OK, what would that imply? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    A: Satriani is a messenger from God.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  8. Re:Latency. by Ironchew · · Score: 2, Funny

    The feeling of sound lagging input could be a different issue or it could be psychological.

    Or in 30-50 milliseconds it could be, y'know, the speed of sound.

  9. Re:quick by billcopc · · Score: 2, Funny

    No no, you're thinking "port OpenGL to Java". I want to see a Java VM written in OpenGL shader language.

    Maybe having 384 lame little stream processors will make Java fast enough to compete with... um... Borland Pascal on a Cyrix 386.

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