Quote Originally Posted by Helloworld_98 View Post
what are you on about?

the programs these guys use would be looking for more teraflops, not ease of programming, the 4870X2 has over 2Tflops, even the GTX 295 has nowhere near that number.
Quote Originally Posted by AbelJemka View Post
You know that theorically RV770 has more computing power than G200?
You are both right, but the API for converting that power to computing power (GPGPU) is still "crappy". CUDA would do a better job, for sure. Those 2Tflops is good for games, but can't get converted to computing power easily, is my point.

But 4870x2 got 2GB of really fast memory, so i was wondering if they are using the memory as some kind of caching, and maybe that's why he said ""Equipped with 6,144 Intel CPUs and 5,120 AMD GPUs, Tianhe was able to store all 27 million books in the National Library of China four times over", meaning that they are keeping this much info in cache ?