[Beowulf] gpgpu
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Joe Landman landman at scalableinformatics.comSat Aug 23 05:48:55 PDT 2008
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Nifty niftyompi Mitch wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 08:34:00PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote: >>> How long have people been doing gpgpu for? >> I remember hearing of people working on programming SGI Onyx pipelines >> in 1997 or so. This was one of the US national labs. Not sure if there >> was much before that. >> >> -- >> Joseph Landman, Ph.D > > Joe's date sounds about right. > > There was a lot of exploration but for the most part the floating point engines in SGI > pipelines were not ieee. They were specialized to the GL and OpenGL code base not > general purpose computation. > > In that time frame here was an SGI internal marketing T-shirt that Intel squashed.... > The theme was "Attitude inside" inside a image invoking swoosh that the Intel I remember going to a meeting in Mtn View and hearing about that ... But I thought that the one that was rejected was actually "Satan Inside". I think a few were printed, somewhere. > marketing folk had issue with. No doubt! -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615
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