From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 20:53:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8787C1065674 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:53:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [204.109.60.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CC58FC19 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:53:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (client-86-31-3-93.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.31.3.93]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 07F935F0C; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:53:22 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Jozsi Avadkan Message-ID: <20100713215322.00002d09@unknown> In-Reply-To: <1279053975.2198.20.camel@localhost> References: <1279053975.2198.20.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list Subject: Re: os that rather uses the gpu? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:53:29 -0000 On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:46:15 +0200 Jozsi Avadkan 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