ref: b21d522836467432174c68692ca4f73045a8face
parent: 30d8c607d8656a2d09d436f102d050aa31c002e7
author: sirjofri <[email protected]>
date: Mon Feb 26 10:26:59 EST 2024
generic processing units
--- a/gpufs.txt
+++ b/gpufs.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
# Graphics or not graphics?
-GPU hardware evolved from very specialized pipelines for 2D (and later 3D) rendering to more generic interfaces.
+GPU hardware evolved from very specialized pipelines for 2D (and later 3D) rendering to more generic processing units.
In the last few years GPU manufacturers started to sell ``unified shaders'' that allow even more generic computing pipelines.
Hardware accelerated AI computation and more specialized graphics processing pipelines¹ justify dropping native graphics processing support, at least in an initial implementation of a GPU filesystem for Plan 9.