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17 May 2024 03:34:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: CUDA - NVIDIA's massively parallel programming architecture  
From: Ben Chambers
Date: 12 Feb 2007 16:07:19
Message: <45d0d707@news.povray.org>
Calvin wrote:
> The counter-rotating quad-toroidal NUMA memory bus of the 7 or 8 SPEs in
> IBM's Cell Processor
> (Mercury Blades, Playstation 3) would support this, though. They're dual
> precision vector coprocessors and can access the global memory that the dual
> core PowerPC can through a shared memory interface (as well as their own
> individual local RAM).

True, but you won't find a Cell processor on a graphics card (much less 
one from NVidia).  Still, I'd get a kick out of seeing POV-Ray run on a 
PS3 :)

...Chambers


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