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>> 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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