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Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks
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Re: Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks
#12tangentially, TIL that VS Code has Verilog extensions:
Re: Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It used to. Some time in the mid 2010s it changed to General Processing Unit, driven by things like PhysX, crowdsourced protein crunching efforts like Folding@Home, and particularly the cryptocurrency mining boom. Now we're in the 2020s and GPUs are all about being Generative Processing Units thanks to the "AI" craze.
But I have still used GPUs as graphics processing units for game and little else this entire time as has everyone I know. Who decided on this nonclemature change? Because it certainly doesnt represent the primary use case...
> Who decided on this nonclemature change?
No one; it's just something Dalewyn is making up.
Re: Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks
#14Isn't a GPU with no rasterization or texture hardware a DSP?
Not a GPU for sure. Not really a DSP either.
I would call it an array processor.
Re: Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks
#15tangentially, TIL that VS Code has Verilog extensions: https://kagi.com/search?q=verilog+vs+code
Is this a plug for kagi? People who don't use kagi can't see the results. Just link to the extensions.
Re: Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought GPU stood for Graphics Processing Unit. Is this not the case?
It used to. Some time in the mid 2010s it changed to General Processing Unit, driven by things like PhysX, crowdsourced protein crunching efforts like Folding@Home, and particularly the cryptocurrency mining boom. Now we're in the 2020s and GPUs are all about being Generative Processing Units thanks to the "AI" craze.
First time I hear this. Given how you are being down voted, I'm probably not the only one.
Re: Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
It used to. Some time in the mid 2010s it changed to General Processing Unit, driven by things like PhysX, crowdsourced protein crunching efforts like Folding@Home, and particularly the cryptocurrency mining boom. Now we're in the 2020s and GPUs are all about being Generative Processing Units thanks to the "AI" craze.
First time I hear this. Given how you are being down voted, I'm probably not the only one.
Downvotes mean little, arguably even moreso than Reddit. I've noticed I've garnered a dedicated downvote squad who tend to make the rounds once or twice a day.
But that aside: Surely you've heard of GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit), a term I again call bloody stupid. Just call it a General Processing Unit in that case. More recently, the amount of money changing hands in furious bids for more Generative Processing Units to fuel the "AI" craze absolutely dwarves actual graphical applications and even the general use cases.
I'm merely calling the bird that quacks like a duck a duck, not a swan duck bird.
Re: Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
First time I hear this. Given how you are being down voted, I'm probably not the only one.
Downvotes mean little, arguably even moreso than Reddit. I've noticed I've garnered a dedicated downvote squad who tend to make the rounds once or twice a day. But that aside: Surely you've heard of GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit), a term I again call bloody stupid. Just call it a General Processing Unit in that case. More recently, the amount of money changing hands in furious bids for more Generati…
This was a correct use of downvotes. You posted something as truth that you seemingly just made up.
Re: Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Downvotes mean little, arguably even moreso than Reddit. I've noticed I've garnered a dedicated downvote squad who tend to make the rounds once or twice a day. But that aside: Surely you've heard of GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit), a term I again call bloody stupid. Just call it a General Processing Unit in that case. More recently, the amount of money changing hands in furious bids for more Generati…
This was a correct use of downvotes. You posted something as truth that you seemingly just made up.
The "truth", for what that's worth, is that GPUs haven't been about graphics as a primary concern for quite a while now and the terminology hasn't kept pace.
Besides, we're apparently here talking about GPUs that can't do graphics.
Re: Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
This was a correct use of downvotes. You posted something as truth that you seemingly just made up.
The "truth", for what that's worth, is that GPUs haven't been about graphics as a primary concern for quite a while now and the terminology hasn't kept pace. Besides, we're apparently here talking about GPUs that can't do graphics.
I think the confusion is between the nature of the acronyms, GPUs are Graphic Processing Units as a hardware concept, GPGPU is a software concept to use GPUs for general processing.