16 Oct
2011
16 Oct
'11
3:58 a.m.
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:05:00 -0400
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Be careful with those "all CPUs"
assertions; server processors are a
pretty big part of the market, and a GPU would be a very expensive
useless piece of silicon real estate there.
Depending on what type of service a
server provides, it may use the GPU
to do extensive math, offload en/decryption, complex database search
algorithms, transcoding of audio / video content on the fly, ...
GPUs will evolve into more general purpose coprocessors.
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