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NVIDIA To Push Into Supercomputing
RedEaredSlider writes "NVIDIA outlined a plan to become 'the computing company,' moving well beyond its traditional focus on graphics and into high-profile areas such as supercomputing. NVIDIA is making heavy investments in several fields. Its Tegra product will be featured in several mobile devices, including a number of tablets that have either hit the market already or are planned for release this year. Its GeForce lineup is gaming-focused while Quadro is all about computer-aided design workstations. The Tesla product line is at the center of NVIDIA's supercomputing push."
The latest GPUs already use more power than the hungriest Intel or AMD x86 ever did.
And when used for the types tasks designed, pump out 10x the performance for maybe twice or three times the power.
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Actually, up to 40 times the performance. http://www.gp-you.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46:art-gpumat&catid=40:cat-gpumat&Itemid=54
That brings me to an interesting point, / . is just "the ramblings of socially-inept, technology-literate news-mongers".
Look, I apologize if I offended you in any way, ok? There's no need for such languages.
nVidia shuns linux users? They may 'shun' those that can not have any non-GPL code, but they do make a higher performing and far more feature rich driver for their cards for Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris and keep it (for the most part) up to date. If you don't like it, there are alternatives.
Gotta love the rabid GPL fans. The GPL doesn't mean freedom for everyone to do things the way you think they should be done.
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