Re: NVIDIA Tesla - up to 960 parallel processing cores
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:01 am
hmm! seems like we are at the threshold of a new technical revolution! hundreds-fold increase of computing power, it's no joke.. 
i hope very much that software developers won't ignore this oportunity and would adapt their products to utilise this vast power!! if i get it right, audio-DSP would benefit from this no less than raytracing in cg domain - which, as it clearly stated, really does.
it's pretty expensive hardware yet, but don't forget it's just recently emerged.
as for questioning like "do one really need this power"..
i once was buying a Pentium IV based PC [back in 2004] and the manager was wondering why do i need such a high-end machine, and advised me consider buying something like celeron xD.
so i wonder how much would be the CPU reading in the perfomance test project using that magnificent PentiumIV
)
now i have intel C2Q q6600 and it shows 24%, but as i moved to 96khz sample rate when i bought quadcore, it sometimes really hits 70 and more % in my projects, which means it's just short of dropouts. yeah i know one can always freeze vsts and so on, but it's definitely not the way to go for most musicians, imho.
so what that sheer power would give us is a bit more creative freedom..
in earnest, a question for Ableton devs: is it theoretically possible to build Abe so it could run utilising the architecture of Tesla? and do all the vsts need to be built in that way too or it's just up to a vst host who distributes the load to cores? [i'm aware also that 1 core in tesla isn't equal to 1 core in common CPUs]
i hope very much that software developers won't ignore this oportunity and would adapt their products to utilise this vast power!! if i get it right, audio-DSP would benefit from this no less than raytracing in cg domain - which, as it clearly stated, really does.it's pretty expensive hardware yet, but don't forget it's just recently emerged.
as for questioning like "do one really need this power"..
i once was buying a Pentium IV based PC [back in 2004] and the manager was wondering why do i need such a high-end machine, and advised me consider buying something like celeron xD.
so i wonder how much would be the CPU reading in the perfomance test project using that magnificent PentiumIV
)now i have intel C2Q q6600 and it shows 24%, but as i moved to 96khz sample rate when i bought quadcore, it sometimes really hits 70 and more % in my projects, which means it's just short of dropouts. yeah i know one can always freeze vsts and so on, but it's definitely not the way to go for most musicians, imho.
so what that sheer power would give us is a bit more creative freedom..
in earnest, a question for Ableton devs: is it theoretically possible to build Abe so it could run utilising the architecture of Tesla? and do all the vsts need to be built in that way too or it's just up to a vst host who distributes the load to cores? [i'm aware also that 1 core in tesla isn't equal to 1 core in common CPUs]
