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1 minute ago, Poet129 said:

that could use a GPU as a CPU for a vm

That's not how they work, you cannot run everyday-software on a GPU. Besides which, it doesn't even support x86 instruction-set, so even if a GPU could be used for running random software, it still wouldn't work.

 

TL;DR: not possible, no.

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1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

That's not how they work, you cannot run everyday-software on a GPU. Besides which, it doesn't even support x86 instruction-set, so even if a GPU could be used for running random software, it still wouldn't work.

 

TL;DR: not possible, no.

What if I made a Linux distro built around the GPU's instruction set?

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9 minutes ago, Poet129 said:

What if I made a Linux distro built around the GPU's instruction set?

How many years of your life can you devote to it?

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11 minutes ago, Poet129 said:

What if I made a Linux distro built around the GPU's instruction set?

 

Just now, Kilrah said:

How many years of your life can you devote to it?

This....

 

Is it possible? Sure, anything is possible. The correct question is, is it feasible. That, technically, is up to you. Im sorry to say, but if you have to ask the question, its likely not feasible for you currently, which isn't to say if you get very interested in this concept, maybe within 5 years you would be able to get something actually running and working if its something you really wanted to dedicated the time for. But also, it likely would run very, very poorly. They are just not made for that at all.

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3 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

 

This....

 

Is it possible? Sure, anything is possible. The correct question is, is it feasible. That, technically, is up to you. Im sorry to say, but if you have to ask the question, its likely not feasible for you currently, which isn't to say if you get very interested in this concept, maybe within 5 years you would be able to get something actually running and working if its something you really wanted to dedicated the time for. But also, it likely would run very, very poorly. They are just not made for that at all.

New Idea GPU as a miniature mainframe.

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1 minute ago, Poet129 said:

New Idea GPU as a miniature mainframe.

What... does that mean?

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3 minutes ago, Poet129 said:

 

I guess I am just very confused what you mean here..? What is a "mini mainframe"? I am not trying to discourage here, the beauty of coding is you can do almost anything, and thats how new technology is created and advanced. But, a GPU doesn't have lots of IO, and even if it did, what data are you going to be feeding it with?

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We know what it is, but it still makes no sense. 

 

A GPU has thousands of "cores", but they can't be used independently. You basically write one program and that program runs simultaneously on all cores. All cores do exactly the same thing at the same time, just on different data.

If your problem/application can't be structured this way, it makes no sense to run it on the GPU.

 

 

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34 minutes ago, Poet129 said:

I have a strong GPU and was wondering if there was a hyper-visor that could use a GPU as a CPU for a vm, I know GPUs have poor single threaded performance however, I have a OS that is very multi-threaded. Even if it isn't faster I think it would be a fun experiment.

Well... What exactly are you trying to accomplish? As people have stated before, replacing a CPU with a GPU core is completely counter-intuitive. But, if you're simplying looking for raw compute performance for calculations, GPU's have been a mainstay there for many years. Anything that can be computed in a parallel fashion (AI tasks, CFD, etc) is particularly well suited to the GPU's core, which is hyper optimized for parallel work. The best solution is as we do today, a CPU and a GPU combined in one system.

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