On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 10:43:54PM -0400, William Park wrote:
Howdy,
I only caught the last 30min of the live stream. Made me wonder... Is there way to use its 2560 GPU cores as substitute for the usual 4 CPU cores?
For general purpose computing? No. For specialized stuff that can be run as thousands of parallel streams with lots of loops over massive amounts of data, especially floating point data? Yes. So video compression and decompression sure, 3D graphics sure, folding@home certainly, and various other tasks like that. But not your x86 code running your web browser or your compiler. Reminds me of the days when Beowulf clusters were new and people would come on IRC and ask "How to I make a beowulf cluster?" and then be asked "You do realize it won't make your web browser go faster, it only works with software written to take advantage of it?" and they would go "Oh, nevermind then". -- Len Sorensen