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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:53:22 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Jozsi Avadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: os that rather uses the gpu?
Message-ID:  <20100713215322.00002d09@unknown>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:46:15 +0200
Jozsi Avadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses
> the GPU for "working", not the CPU? [by default]

GPUs are so specialized that you probably won't ever find an operating
system being run in one: the performance would be terrible. It's far
better to only offload certain applications that have been designed to
run on such a highly parallel system.

-- 
Bruce Cran



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