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Researchers utilize Xbox 360 chips
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article published on 15 September, 2009
Academics at the University of Warwick have taken advantage of the Xbox 360 GPU chip's parallel processing abilities to crunch data as part of scientific study. The Warwick team harnessed a single Xbox 360 Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) to model how electrical signals in the heart moved around damaged cardiac cells. It is an example of how technology being used for gaming can also be used ... [ read the full article ]
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15. September 2009 @ 03:23 |
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So the only reason that they used the xbox360 is because one of the engineers used to work for Microsoft? And even with the knowledge he gained there, he still can't figure out basic networking? And the cluster he was using was so slow that a single XboX360 processor (basicly a two-gen-old tripple-core xeon) is almost as fast?
Seems like just another braindead microsoft engineer doing things in a more difficult, slow, and expensive way for no reason at all. It also sounds like some people are still using extremely outdated clusters...clusters so slow that they are easily beaten by a single quad-core PC.
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tjohns
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15. September 2009 @ 04:20 |
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The article states "GPU" ... they're using the multi-pipelined parallel graphics chip to do the crunching, not the CPU
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plazma247
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15. September 2009 @ 10:32 |
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To me the story should read, used ATI GRAPHICS CHIP TO.
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15. September 2009 @ 12:19 |
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Originally posted by tjohns:
The article states "GPU" ... they're using the multi-pipelined parallel graphics chip to do the crunching, not the CPU
It doesn't mention the CPU.
Originally posted by plazma247:
To me the story should read, used ATI GRAPHICS CHIP TO.
Where? I don't really get your point.
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15. September 2009 @ 12:27 |
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Originally posted by plazma247:
To me the story should read, used ATI GRAPHICS CHIP TO.
I guess, looking again, that your point is about Xenos, but I still don't see why I should have totally left out that it is used with Xbox 360 and that it was used instead for research calculations... Why would I re-write what the University of Warwick actually says it is using?
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15. September 2009 @ 21:21 |
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is this not the same as using liquid nitrogen to make a 486 CPU run ten times faster?
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15. September 2009 @ 23:50 |
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Hmm...mis-read it...
But this is even worse...the GPU in the xbox360 (an old ATI chip) is hardly a good processor. The old 4870HD will blow the xbox's GPU out of the water. Again I ask...what terrible, 10-year-old cluster was this guy using?
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16. September 2009 @ 13:09 |
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You are all missing the big picture here...
We need to know how many times the researchers had to send in the unit to Texas to have it repaired. Or they probably just wraped it in a towel.
Just kidding love my xbox
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