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To: Straight Vermonter
CUDA, the last few years the Nvidia GPU had processing power beyond just graphics.

I think it started as a way to offload physics in games from the CPU.

13 posted on 11/15/2014 4:45:58 PM PST by this_ol_patriot
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To: this_ol_patriot

It comes from the games, but scientists and engineers take advantage of it as well. It’s sort of a throwback to the “math coprocessors” we used to have in 286 and 386 machines.


14 posted on 11/15/2014 4:48:42 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: this_ol_patriot
NVIDIA is offering over 300 GFLOPS for only $192.
35 posted on 11/17/2014 8:21:17 AM PST by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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