Nifty niftyompi Mitch wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 08:34:00PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
How long have people been doing gpgpu for?
I remember hearing of people working on programming SGI Onyx pipelines
in 1997 or so. This was one of the US national labs. Not sure if there
was much before that.
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Joseph Landman, Ph.D
Joe's date sounds about right.
There was a lot of exploration but for the most part the floating point engines in SGI
pipelines were not ieee. They were specialized to the GL and OpenGL code base not
general purpose computation.
In that time frame here was an SGI internal marketing T-shirt that Intel
squashed....
The theme was "Attitude inside" inside a image invoking swoosh that the Intel
I remember going to a meeting in Mtn View and hearing about that ...
But I thought that the one that was rejected was actually "Satan
Inside". I think a few were printed, somewhere.
marketing folk had issue with.
No doubt!
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