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Warp wrote:
> Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguy com> wrote:
>> Perhaps if
>> Intel surprises everyone, and releases their next graphics chip as a
>> double precision FP monsters, we'd be able to take advantage of that,
>
> Exactly how would it be different from current FPUs?
>
Because it would be on a graphics chip?
There has been some serious speculation that Intel will simply release a
chip with something like 256 double-precision FPUs on it as Unified
Shaders, and rely on shader programs to provide *all* graphics
functionality (that is, they wouldn't hardcode *any* graphics stuff at all).
While it would be slower than an equivalent unit from nVidia or DAAMIT,
it would also be much more flexible, and utilizing it for non-graphics
work (like HPC) would be extremely easy compared to today's cards.
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...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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