15 Oct
2011
15 Oct
'11
11:05 p.m.
On 10/15/2011 09:54 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
OTOH, NeWS sounded fascinating and I've love to
see a modern, FOSS
reimplementation of it. I think that perhaps it might not be a very
good fit for the modern display pipeline though - of a very fast
multi-gigaHertz multicore CPU connected closely to a cluster of
high-performance very-parallel MIMD GPU cores.
Right now, usually, they're on a PCIe card, but AMD is showing the way
- its Llano and Bulldozer "Fusion" APUs integrate the GPU onto the
same die as the CPU cores. This is the way all CPUs *will* go; it's
just that the current Intel offerings have crappy GPUs.
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.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA