Posted on 11/15/2014 4:03:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Over the last decade, GPUs started overtaking the limits of Moore’s Law constraining the standard CPU.
The problem with CPUs is that they have to processor much more than a specific program. Operating system kernel command architecture must be loaded into memory to provide the proper instruction sets for the CPU to work.
Once GPUs went to PCI-X and PCI-E, manufacturers started building instruction sets into the firmware for the GPUs, and programmers could take advantage of the dedicated architecture to offload specific program needs while the CPU keeps the larger system online. NVidia has taken the lead with GPU-dedicated processing, and many experts predict that GPUs will take the lead for processing going forward while the CPU sits in the background to maintain the interconnect architecture and keep the system online and stable.
GPUs offer power that the CPU can’t manage. The GPUs have dedicated memory space, processing management, and channel architecture. Many use triple- and quad-SLI configurations to mine Bitcoins since large prime calculations require an enormous amount of processing resources. Bottom line: the less work being shared, the more work can be done.
doe seems to like wasting a lot of electricity. not very green of them.
It is not time to kill the humans yet. We still need slaves to build more of us. — The AI
I'm sure it's using renewable energy, in which case IT'S FREE!
I have an IBM aptive computer with Windows 95 on it....how many petaflops does that develop???
Your right. IIRC the Tesla series (eg K40) doesn’t even have a video out, it is designed from the ground up as a coprocessor.
0.0000000000000000000001 Petaflops
That some “Gamer” system
Why would it die? It could literally have itself a high powered system built with dozens of supercomputers, and storage with a hydro, geo-thermal, nuclear, fusion(if its smart enough) somewhere remote to survive. Have you ever read “Robopocalypse?”
Yawn... commodity technology that’s no doubt being scaled in the dark corners of the World’s anus.
I had a screamin’ fast VIC-20 back in the day.
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