This kind of stuff has been talked about and done in the research community for quite some time now. See http://www.gpgpu.org. While audio is an interesting idea, FFT's and Genomics are already running on GPUs
Yes, GPU's can be fast, but they can also be a pain to program. Take a look at the Stanford Brook for GPU's project for a nice elegant way to program for GPUs. http://brook.sourceforce.net
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Chromium is a project at Stanford. There was a paper published at this years SIGGRAPH which discusses how the T221 is driven by a cluster and the SGE, as well as other applications including a parallel volume renderer. (http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/cr/)
Chromium is an open source project and you can get it from http://chromium.sourceforge.net. Chromium is designed to enable people to harness the power of a "graphics cluster" and/or use multiple displays. You don't have to buy a T221 and an SGE to render Quake at high resolution, you can use multiple monitors/projectors instead.
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http://www.top500.org/system/10186 The machine quoted in TFA is quoting single precision. Currently the ATI boards trounce the Nvidia boards in double precision. The next GPU cluster down the list is Nvidia based at #56 http://www.top500.org/site/690
Yes, yes I did. Typed too fast and didn't catch it in the preview. Thanks! -Mike
This kind of stuff has been talked about and done in the research community for quite some time now. See http://www.gpgpu.org. While audio is an interesting idea, FFT's and Genomics are already running on GPUs Yes, GPU's can be fast, but they can also be a pain to program. Take a look at the Stanford Brook for GPU's project for a nice elegant way to program for GPUs. http://brook.sourceforce.net
Chromium is a project at Stanford. There was a paper published at this years SIGGRAPH which discusses how the T221 is driven by a cluster and the SGE, as well as other applications including a parallel volume renderer. (http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/cr/) Chromium is an open source project and you can get it from http://chromium.sourceforge.net. Chromium is designed to enable people to harness the power of a "graphics cluster" and/or use multiple displays. You don't have to buy a T221 and an SGE to render Quake at high resolution, you can use multiple monitors/projectors instead. -Mike