New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached 179
Vigile writes "Multi-GPU technology from both NVIDIA and ATI has long been dependent on many factors including specific motherboard chipsets and forcing gamers to buy similar GPUs within a single generation. A new company called Lucid Logix is showing off a product that could potentially allow vastly different GPUs to work in tandem while still promising near-linear scaling on up to four chips. The HYDRA Engine is dedicated silicon that dissects DirectX and OpenGL calls and modifies them directly to be distributed among the available graphics processors. That means the aging GeForce 6800 GT card in your closet might be useful once again and the future of one motherboard supporting both AMD and NVIDIA multi-GPU configurations could be very near."
No strings? (Score:5, Funny)
If there's no strings, how are they connected?
Re:No strings? (Score:2, Funny)
It's a GPU orgy. They'll find a way to connect.
Re:No strings? (Score:5, Funny)
The theory will fit, there will be strings, we'll add more dimensions if we need to.
Re:No strings? (Score:1, Funny)
Tubes. Defiantly a series of tubes.
Math Coprocessor (Score:1, Funny)
obligatory ... (Score:1, Funny)
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All your GPU are belong to Lucid!
(sorry guys)
Re:AMD and NVIDIA?? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No strings? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure there's a superstring theory joke in here somewhere. Unfortunately I don't understand string theory. I guess it's okay, since apperantly no one else does either.
I guess I'll just reference XKCD
http://xkcd.com/171/ [xkcd.com]
no Strings attached (Score:5, Funny)
what is attached though:
ints
booleans
longs
short
bytes
No strings. (Score:5, Funny)
But it looks like it will need plenty of threads to work though.
Q: OK, what would that imply? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Math Coprocessor (Score:2, Funny)
Your math co would still be good, but your turbo switch will need to be set to off.
Re:Latency. (Score:2, Funny)
The feeling of sound lagging input could be a different issue or it could be psychological.
Or in 30-50 milliseconds it could be, y'know, the speed of sound.
Re:no Strings attached (Score:3, Funny)
what is attached though:
ints booleans longs short bytes
what about lists, you insensitive clod!I call lisp discrimination.
Re:quick (Score:3, Funny)
No no, you're thinking "port OpenGL to Java". I want to see a Java VM written in OpenGL shader language.
Maybe having 384 lame little stream processors will make Java fast enough to compete with... um... Borland Pascal on a Cyrix 386.
Re:no Strings attached (Score:3, Funny)
What about tuples you insensitive Python hater!