Graphics wise we aren't pushing them in mastercam. So why not throw multithreading to the gpu for cuda powered processing?

A test I did against CPU vs GPU was cracking tripcodes. The CPU on my machine could crack about 15 million trip codes a second but when I rewrote it for cuda, my GPU could crack about 400 million a second!!!! What would take my CPU centuries to crack my gpu cpuld do in in a matter of weeks! Why not utilize that?

For more info on trip codes just wiki it.

^^^

yea but no one listens to me when I say that multithreading needs to be converted to CUDA in mastercam. Our little Quadros are supercomputing capable! But what do I know *shrugs*

Thats software based raid. Motherboards don't have true raid built in and it's done through the bios.

Then you'll bottleneck your northbridge. Pointless to do that.

Read up on QPI paths. i7 = single socket Xeon = dual socket.

yep.

yes but at 4 the parity algorithm is balanced and you then can hot swap a drive when it fails.

Imagine windows 7 with a server sticker on it. Thats what its like. Is there anyway you could use BSD or Linux?

All good SSD's have built in garbage collection and don't require any instruction sets to be sent to the drive to invoke it. Garbage collection is not a drive saver, its more of a necessary to run the SSD. If you're looking at getting a SSD, only and I mean ONLY buy Intel. Three year no questions asked warranty.

First lesson of computers:

When a dell rep tells you something, disregard and go to the manufacturers website to find out. The Intel controllers all support trim.

I hope you back all your data up everyday. Software raid + raid 0 = Guaranteed trouble.

Really, all OS's have trim support but windows 7, windows server 2008 R2 and linux 2.6.33 have native support. All other times you can just send the commands manually a couple times a day or just write a small script to deploy the trim program. Thats what I did for my macbook pro when I put a intel x25-M in it.

Oh boy I hope you guys running raid drives have a raid card instead of using the motherboards raid function.

Motherboard RAID = Software based raid. Not true raid 0 speeds and will break very easy

RAID card = Hardware controller for raid drives. Stability + true raid 0 speeds.

Only raid 0 SCSI server drives or SSD's. Anything else is a placebo.

Raid 1 = best economical backup solution.

Raid 5 = God tier workstation raid setup but needs 4 drives and a hardware controller.

How bout openCL optimization for gpu computing?

>windows

Oh right...

Ok, how bout mastercam for mac?

I'z here!

Ok, now the question is what are you going to be programming? The new macbook pro is one hot machine. It also depends if you are going to be using virtual machines or bootcamp. The new update of VMWare fusion uses OpenCL for virtual machine processing so I can't really tell any difference between that and bootcamp (dualbooting).

^^^

Or a mac

Windows still wont use all the processing power of the computer.

Not much. It depends on what you want to do, either boot camp (dual booting) or virtual machines.

The only way I can get the stupid insane speeds I get is that my shop is full of macs so I use Xgrid (cluster computing) with a virtual machine that is OpenCL optimized. Basically I make up for my hardware shortcomings with added nodes/good software to run the clients.

I DO!!!

BRB, attempting domain name parking

Makes a mac cluster look cheap!

18 secs. Gettin there...

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Mac wants you...

Just received an update to VMWare virtual machines so lets see if I can get my benchmark record back!

Gotta fix my cluster and rewrite my Xgrid virtual machine scripts. Good way to kill the rest of the day

This thread makes me jealous. My nc mill is half my age

Mac

Antec... Nice...

WTF AM I READING???

Should but you gotta check.

I need to get my cluster running again. Keith owns the record and I have to have it back!

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