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Nvidia Aims For Fastest Computer

Posted May 16, 2012 7:18 AM

From BBC News - Technology:

Nvidia unveils a new GPU which it says should help the the US overtake Japan to claim the world's fastest supercomputer.

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Re: Nvidia Aims For Fastest Computer

05/17/2012 2:19 PM

Nvidia, as a top video processor engine in hardware (more exactly vector processor with attached scalar values) was developed to render video fast enough and detailed enough for top gaming application. Your general apps. CPU is a number of magnitudes slower for such application. It was already hacked for such purpose before.

So, congratulations.!

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