[geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Micah R Ledbetter <vlack-lists at vlack.com>
>Date: 2007/09/10 Mon PM 02:30:22 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] "Stress test" for Vista system - suggestions sought...

>On Sep 9, 2007, at 18:45, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 09:27:54PM -0700, Geoff Reed wrote:
>>> I saw a video card recently that had a GPU running around 700 MHz 
>>> (IIRC) and
>>> 1 GB of DDR ram on it ?!?!??!?!
>>
>> Yep.  More and more stuff offloaded to the GPU every day.  In fact,  
>> some
>> 3D effects companies have software that renders on the *GPU*  
>> instead of the
>> main machine CPU - as its more powerful / faster at math.
>
>I read an offhand quote from some BSD developer (maybe OpenBSD?) who  
>said that it would be cool for someone to write programs using GPUs  
>as coprocessors... like SSL accelerators, etc.
>
>I agree... that would be pretty cool.

Until Mr. Bill complains that he'll need a $300 video card to run ssh from the command line ;^)

Lionel