Ding. It's amazing what you can do with a decent set of vector operations. Honestly, if you want balls-out performance, you probably need specialized hardware.

Ding. It's amazing what you can do with a decent set of vector operations. Honestly, if you want balls-out performance, you probably need specialized hardware. In days of yore that meant you bought a vector box for your computer, or a Cray. These days you can just load up a PC with a bunch of high-end GPUs. A cow-orker of mine down the hall has a machine with six of them installed -- he's so giddy, it's kind of irritating :-)