On Jun 25, 4:45=A0am, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On a sunny day (Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:44:58 -0700 (PDT)) it happened
Yevgen
> Barsukov <evgen...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On Jun 16, 6:29=A0am, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> AMD breaks Teraflop limit
> >> In German:
> >>
=A0http://www.heise.de/newsticker/AMD-knackt-die-TeraFLOPS-Grenze--/me=
ld.=3D
> >..
> >> The Firestream 9250 GPU PCIe express card is likely based on the new
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V77=3D
> >0 GPU,
> >> as will be used in the Radeon 4800 series.
> >> The 1 Teraflop is for single precision, i tis 200Gflops for double
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cio=3D
> >n 64 bit.
> >> The card uses 150W.
>
> >Is it possible to stick it into a Windows based PC and expect OS to
> >recognize
> >it as 10 CPUs (provided appropriate drivers),
>
> I do not think so.
> As far as I know you will have to write the soft do do specific math on
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hat card.
> There is a SDK I think.
>
> You would start with a mathematical problem, and look what parts best
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be done by the GPU.
> It is, at least at this time, not a PC boost card or such.
>
> The Radeon HD4800 seems to beat the Nvideo competion though in many
aspec=
ts,
> here some article in German I just found:
>
=A0http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Radeon-HD-4800-uebertrumpft-Konkurrenz.=
...
>
> Maybe you can run it through babelfish translation or some site like
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..
Thanks. I can read German. It is good info.
Do you think it would be fundamentally possible to Re-use graphic
cards GPU
for floating-point math done on non-graphic programs that run on the
PC, _without_
creating a special card based on same hardware such as FireStream?
E.g. while I am not running Crisis on my expensive graphic card,
could I use my graphic-card resources running Mathcad 10 times faster?
Also graphic cards being much more
mainstream compared to floating point accelerators, it looks like such
dual-purpose solution
would be much cheaper...
Regards,
Yevgen
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