CPU vs GPU 77 Responses

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• ninjasavant

  Aug 30, 08, 11:14 a.m. – Permalink

• Jnr_Madison

  I love the guy, 'IT'S THE JOKER'

  

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  Dog-earAug 30, 08, 11:18 a.m. – Permalink

• SkyPoo

  I watched this and was vaguely interested, but what is a GPU first and foremost, and secondly, beyond its entertainment strictly within the context of these peoples presentation, what value does this thing have in any realm..

  - what is it technological value
  - what is its artistic value
  - what is its educational value
  - what is its practical value

  I couldn;t really see anything other than two very pleased boffins who have once again managed to make their parents really extremely proud of them for the hundredth time since their fourtieth birthdays.

  Someone is going to come along now and illuminate me, leaving me feeling like a total moron for missing the point entirely. Happens to me twice a day on here.

  • Graphic Processing Unit
    vs
    Central Processing Unit– anairn1/8

    You could have just written 'pish'– Jnr_Madison2/8

    CPU (non multi-core,anyway) is essentially a single instruction, run sequentially.
    GPU's kind of the same, except– anairn3/8

    it handles a massive array of data during that one cycle. It's like the difference between a single vector point and a bmp– anairn4/8

    'bitmap image' or something.
    Actually, I'm as clueless as you, but that's the point I thought they were making.– anairn5/8

    Ah right, so its metaphorical demonstration of the difference, not a product they've invented!
    Now I feel stupid!!!!!– SkyPoo6/8

    Thanks for explaining that to me. I had the sound off so maybe I would have got it with sound, maybe, hmmm.– SkyPoo7/8

    ( I just thought they'd knocked up a giant Mona Lisa gun in the shed)– SkyPoo8/8

  

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  Dog-earAug 30, 08, 1:48 p.m. – Permalink

• anairn

  What I'd like to see Them do is marry this matrix-paintball-printing tech and the tracking/rate of fire of this ... http://blog.wired.com/defense/20… ... so they could paint smiley faces/Groucho masks on hundreds of people in mere seconds, without warning, as a form of non-lethal (but fucking annoying) crowd control.

  

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  Dog-earAug 30, 08, 1:57 p.m. – Permalink

• SkyPoo

  ^ Hahaha, Nice.

  Now I know that they've actually built that giant gun thing to demonstrate the difference between a CPU and a GPU, I find myself wavering between feeling like its not as dumb as I initially thought (as detailed in the side notes above) and feeling like its maybe four hundred time more dumb than I initially thought in a slightly different way... because they've put all that time and resources and energy and effort into building a gigantic, cumbersome, fairly useless monalisa shooting paintball machine when they could have just commissioned an animation of it.

  Get a branes, Morans!

  

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  Dog-earAug 30, 08, 2:02 p.m. – Permalink

• anairn

  Once again, I'll have to completely disagree with you, Kypsoo.

  Like science and the general accumulation of knowledge, geekery places no requirement for need or value in its efforts. The very fact that it can be done is enough and always should be.

  It's kinda like art that way.

  • Art v2
    
    (still in beta though)– anairn1/4

    Fair enough I s'pose. More fool them though because they'll be hoiking that thing round schools for years now.– SkyPoo2/4

    Not once the Japs see it - this thing's going to be hand-sized in no time!– anairn3/4

    Wow, imagine having a gun that you poin... hang on.... v– SkyPoo4/4

  

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  Dog-earAug 30, 08, 2:06 p.m. – Permalink

• SkyPoo

  Wow, imagine that thing as a handgun. Cool.

  What I would siddenly like to see them do with that thing is to load it up with a material that will set on contact with another liquid (for arguement's sake, water') and then instead of firing it at a solid wall, fire it at a sheet of the 'setting liquid' which is being constantly poured without any breaks from a trough at the top into a trough at the bottom (ie no back wall)... so that it mght be possible to not actually have the rsultant image as a solid object in its own right without it being marks on a substrate.

  Maybe its filled with hot liquid plastic and cold water sets it on impact. Or hot wax.

  Also, I'd liek to see them fire it at a structurally sound but very thin and flimsy substrate that was loosely suspended top and bottom, so that you get a relief impression of the impact force on the reverse side.

  Somebody get these boffins on the phone, I have many ideas,

  • "so that it might be possible to actually have" superfluous 'not in there for some reason, totally inverting meaning.– SkyPoo

  

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  Dog-earAug 30, 08, 2:29 p.m. – Permalink

• mcLeod

  reminds me of this

  

  • you had it set to whore!– ninjasavant

  

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  Dog-earAug 30, 08, 4:51 p.m. – Permalink