Re: GPU-based Compute Cloud

IBM is working on Cell processors for highly parallel computing.

(e.g. string pattern search at 10Gbps on 2 cells)

Sassa

2008/6/12 Khazret Sapenov <sa...@gmail.com>:
> What do you think about compute cloud, powered by general purpose GPUs
> (graphics processing units), dedicated entirely to stream processing?
> It'll provide good(cheap?) facilities for evolutionary computation or media
> processing (e.g. transcoding video files).
> I've read that SUN is working in this direction (apparently due to inoptimal
> price/performance ratio), and Apple just makes alternative to CUDA, which
> eventually is one step further to commodity GPGPUs, suitable for cloud.
>
> cheers,
> Khaz Sapenov
> >
>

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