Monday, September 1, 2008

CPU and GPU, from nvision 2008

Nvidia had a geek party in San Jose, called nvision2008.
In one of the peak events of the conference, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman came to demonstrate the difference between a Central Processing Unit (CPU) and a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), using color cannons.
(See:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/nvision2008/day3.html).


Cory Ondrejka, former CTO at Linden Lab and one of Second Life founders posted the following videos from the party, showing the color cannons in action:
collapsing geography: geek celebrity. Make you understand the power of GPUs. An inspiring color cannon! Wow!

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