[fwlug] Processing on a video board [Nvidia]

John McKelvey jmmckel at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 17:53:29 EST 2008


Hey! Thanks for the quick feedback...

John

On Feb 16, 2008 5:30 PM, Rob Ludwick <rob at rcludw.no-ip.org> wrote:

> Folding @ Home has done some things with GPU's, including apparently
> ATI, NVIDIA, and PS3.
>
> http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/FAQ-highperformance.html
>
> http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/FAQ-ATI.html
>
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 17:17 -0500, Jon wrote:
> > I'll be damned if I can find a reference, but I recall seeing this stuff
> > before.
> >
> > A GPU is really good at doing certain kinds of calculations and so it
> > follows if you are needing to do similar work a GPU is better than a
> > general processor.
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 17:10 -0500, John McKelvey wrote:
> > > I have a colleague in Germany who has harnessed [in some way] an
> > > Nvidia GPU to do numerical calculations and it appear to be extremely
> > > fast..  Any references on the web to something similar?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > John McKelvey
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