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PCs are "good enough" to do the job, the same reason they killed off these beasts back in the first place. The software I work on started life on SGI, but has
by jamesfmilne 3y ago
PCs are "good enough" to do the job, the same reason they killed off these beasts back in the first place.
The software I work on started life on SGI, but has been on Linux PCs for the last 20 years.
For the top end, we use big servers with 6-8 GPUs, but they sound like jet aircraft nowadays so they live in a machine room.
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- nologic01 3y agoYes, that is my exactly my experience too, but the task of innovators is to prove that "good enough" is just not good enough and that we have a need that we didn't know - for which we are willing to pay a premium :-) The underlying driver always involves the economics of cost of development versus market size and in the past this was ruthless for specialized vendors. But today, e.g., NVIDIA is riding high on what are extremely specialized chips, presumably on the assumption of massive adoption. So its not clear if we are still in the regime of commoditized computation that destroyed the Unix workstation era or maybe the category will be reinvented.
- jeffbee 3y agoAt the moment that the PC killed off Unix workstations, the PCs were already radically better. We were all just waiting for application vendors to port to Windows NT. When my SGI was replaced by a dual Pentium Pro it was a little shocking how much faster it was.