[geeks] New Itanium machines from SGI

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 07:15 PM, Chris Byrne wrote:
> Oh and why arent we using our video cards spare processing power when
> they arent being used for display processing? You would think it would
> be relatively easy to write software and a driver that uses the onboard
> geometry engines to do floating point work. Hell a GeForce ti4600 has
> more processing power than my whole computer did three years ago.

   While I agree with what you're saying, and I'm sure you already know 
this, I should point out that the processor on these video cards are 
*far* from general-purpose floating point processors.

       -Dave

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