http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/01/nvidia-responds-to-my-cuda-questions/ Blogging in the real world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:02:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2009/10/01/nvidia-responds-to-my-cuda-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-108673 Chris Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:12:16 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=7888#comment-108673 It would be reckless to dismiss supercomputing 'on the desktop'. People use all sorts of software these days to do things that would have required dedicated signal-processing chips 20 years ago. Windows uses far more processor power than was readily available 10 years ago. We may not all want to model the climate in our own home in ten years time, but in 20 years it would be a would be easy to download and execute apps that are inconceivable to us now. This by the way is why you should give short-shrift to advocates of network appliances and people who grandly pronounce on the 'death of the PC' without a shred of historical precedent. It would be reckless to dismiss supercomputing ‘on the desktop’. People use all sorts of software these days to do things that would have required dedicated signal-processing chips 20 years ago. Windows uses far more processor power than was readily available 10 years ago. We may not all want to model the climate in our own home in ten years time, but in 20 years it would be a would be easy to download and execute apps that are inconceivable to us now. This by the way is why you should give short-shrift to advocates of network appliances and people who grandly pronounce on the ‘death of the PC’ without a shred of historical precedent.

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