>> That's rather perverse though. Are you telling it you need "at least 2 
>> GB RAM" to run M$ Office smoothly, but 1/8 of that is just fine for 
>> running extremely intensive game software?
> 
> Well almost, I know that just double the PS3 RAM would be enough to run 
> Vista + Office smoothly.  But then Vista does 842434 more things than 
> the PS3 OS does, so I think it's allowed to use up half a gig more if it 
> wants to.

I just find it ironic that running Word requires massively more RAM than 
running a bleeding-edge computer game, that's all.

> I suspect that the clever bit about CUDA is how it translates your 
> arbitrary code into operations that the GPU is capable of carrying out.  

Er, yuh. Definitely. ;-)

> And I also suspect, that to get decent performance you need to have a 
> pretty good understanding of how the GPU actually works, and write your 
> code accordingly.

Have you had a read of the CUDA manual? I don't know much about GPU 
design, but reading this gave me a better idea of what this stuff works 
internally...

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