| Question about nVidia's CUDA. [message #347794] |
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nikki6ixx
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My question to anyone here who knows a thing or two about CUDA is whether they think it could be the next big thing in computing, or a big, fancy blip on the roadmap of technology. The reason I'm asking is because I own quite a few nVidia shares, and I need to weigh short-term vs. long-term, etc. I have a good handle on most of their other operations, but CUDA fascinates me, despite me not knowing all too much about its workings.
So does anyone here think CUDA, or its competition from AMD/ATI could turn the computing world on its head?
I've read up about it, at least as much as I can understand, and I am pretty amazed at the amount of power the GPU's of today have. One organization has used CUDA to run programs/applications in half a minute... programs that used to take half an hour, as well as performing other complex applications in real-time!
I'm asking it here, because I know I'll have a better chance of getting some really good answers that will be easy for my small mind to digest. 
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| Re: Question about nVidia's CUDA. [message #347859 is a reply to message #347794] |
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| nikki6ixx wrote on Thu, 21 August 2008 15:30 |
My question to anyone here who knows a thing or two about CUDA is whether they think it could be the next big thing in computing, or a big, fancy blip on the roadmap of technology. The reason I'm asking is because I own quite a few nVidia shares, and I need to weigh short-term vs. long-term, etc. I have a good handle on most of their other operations, but CUDA fascinates me, despite me not knowing all too much about its workings.
So does anyone here think CUDA, or its competition from AMD/ATI could turn the computing world on its head?
I've read up about it, at least as much as I can understand, and I am pretty amazed at the amount of power the GPU's of today have. One organization has used CUDA to run programs/applications in half a minute... programs that used to take half an hour, as well as performing other complex applications in real-time!
I'm asking it here, because I know I'll have a better chance of getting some really good answers that will be easy for my small mind to digest.
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CUDA is awesome if what you need to do doesn't require much branching (ie physics and graphics). Sadly, there's little chance of it running complicated things such as an operating system with the same amount of performance.
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| Re: Question about nVidia's CUDA. [message #348201 is a reply to message #347859] |
Sun, 24 August 2008 14:52 |
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| Saberhawk wrote on Fri, 22 August 2008 04:01 |
CUDA is awesome if what you need to do doesn't require much branching (ie physics and graphics). Sadly, there's little chance of it running complicated things such as an operating system with the same amount of performance.
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That's a shame, but it looks like nVidia realizes this too, as I've been hearing about them developing a 45nm x86 processor. I'm not totally convinced this is true, but it'd be an interesting development, although it would be an absolute nightmare in the patent department.
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| Re: Question about nVidia's CUDA. [message #348235 is a reply to message #347794] |
Mon, 25 August 2008 01:03 |
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NVidia is indeed working on a low voltage x86 processor, its suposed to compete with the VIA CPU's and Intel atom processor. And well CUDA is all fun, but its only usefull for high FPU load stuff and more importantly stuff that can be done accross a shitload of threads. Most normal programs will not benefit from it.
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| Re: Question about nVidia's CUDA. [message #348281 is a reply to message #348235] |
Mon, 25 August 2008 17:08 |
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| Ghostshaw wrote on Mon, 25 August 2008 03:03 |
NVidia is indeed working on a low voltage x86 processor, its suposed to compete with the VIA CPU's and Intel atom processor.
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Is this processor intended to have an embedded graphics solution by any chance?
In fact, could you point me to any websites about this processor?
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. And well with games the GPU is already heavily used anyway 
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