10 Mar
2007
10 Mar
'07
2:30 p.m.
On 10 Mar 2007 at 12:03, Randy Dawson wrote:
Todays Ghz processors cannot beat a vector machine in
computation, Titan had a 16 Mhz 1K floating point vector ALU.
I am currently working with Ardent/Stellar/Stardent Dore' visualization
library from these machines.
I strongly suspect that the GPU from a modern PC video card or game
can probably run rings around an old Stardent box.
That's not to belittle vector boxes--even modern Intel CPUs have SIMD
instructions.
Personally, I've worked in compiler development for the CDC STAR and
the ETA 10, so I'm not bashing vector machines.
Cheers,
Chuck