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Read this. Laugh. (And on a more serious note, Hannibal has an interesting article on the G80 architecture. Basically, it’s not a GPU, it’s a Cell on steroids. The Cell has 8 SPUs; the G80 has 128. I wonder if someone could get Linux’s spufs working on the 8800… If Nvidia ever releases a version […]

Anandtech benchmarked Apache and MySQL performance on OSX (on a dual G5), Yellowdog (on a dual G5), and SUSE (on dual Opteron and dual Xeon). Results are quite interesting. First, gcc 4 apparently is able to output much better floating point code on the G5 than older versions of gcc; if one uses gcc 4, […]