Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

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  On 07/15/2010 04:39 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:29 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>      On 07/15/2010 04:21 PM, Robert Myers wrote:
>     > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:44 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>
>     > <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >        For many years, this has been
>     >     a tug of war between
>     >     industry on one side, and the department of defense and the
>     NSA on the
>     >     other.
>     >
>     >
>     > You left out the Department of Energy, which is a much bigger player
>     > than the DoD.
>     >
>     > Meaningful computational power has been available on desktops for
>     > quite a while, and, if one desktop wasn't enough, you could always
>     > Beowulf it, which isn't much different from what the DoE has
>     been doing.
>     >
>     > If you think flops is a good measure of the science you can do, you
>     > should probably be in a different business.
>     >
>     > Robert.
>     >
>     On this list, I do not think you should be in the business of
>     1- putting your words in other people's mouths
>     2- telling people what business they should or should not be in.
>
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> I've been involved in this debate in a very public way for a long time 
> now.
>
> YOU chose to use this list to advocate a position that the DoE has 
> been using for years to convince people that ever bigger computers are 
> a good way to spend money.  If you didn't say it, you certainly 
> strongly implied it (more flops is better).
>
> I answered you because you stepped on MY toes.
>
> How long have you been around?  The Cray-1 was practically synonymous 
> with "supercomputer," and that kind of power has been available to 
> desktop users for a long time now.
>
> Robert.
>
"There he goes again"
I did not choose any position. I merely stated a fact and you concocted 
from that, that I am taking a position on the issue.
I am an old timer by the average age of this list's subscribers. I was 
around when the pdp 8 and pdp 11 were  used to teach
assembly language programming.


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