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  Sonnet RackMac Mini Xserver, Quadro 4000, Adobe CS6.

  Posted by Jeremy Garchow on May 1, 2012 at 8:38 pm

  Takes hacked drivers to get this to work.

  GUI runs off of internal GPU of mini.

  CUDA effects runs off of Quadro.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koE5r0Kg1Rc

  o_0

  Jeremy

  Jeremy Garchow replied 14 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Andrew Richards

  May 1, 2012 at 9:07 pm

  Interesting. So GPGPU duty is clearly viable over Thunderbolt’s bandwidth. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could get a dedicated GPGPU coprocessor like the guts of a Tesla in a small Thunderbolt case that eschewed the video out? If the compute functions of the GPU can be decoupled from the display (as that video demonstrates), that changes things. Let the GPU baked into the Ivy Bridge chips drive the displays and attach a compute-only GPGPU engine to accelerate enabled apps. Very interesting.

  Best,
  Andy
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  Misha Aranyshev

  May 1, 2012 at 9:21 pm

  I always wondered why wouldn’t BMD stick a couple of GPU’s into Multibridge.
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  Jeremy Garchow

  May 2, 2012 at 12:41 am

  [Andrew Richards] “Very interesting.”

  I thought so, too.

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