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[Mark Filipak]

On 03/04/2020 05:12 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 3/4/20, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/04/2020 05:02 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>> On 3/4/20, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 03/04/2020 04:51 PM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>>>> On 3/4/20, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.windows+ffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 03/04/2020 11:14 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>>>>>> On 3/4/20, Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 3/4/2020 7:39 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Not 100% correct.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Which part? (And does it need to be, anyway? Analogies often aren't
>>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>>> still get the points across.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CPU and GPU...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, and thanks for the criticism,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't mention GPUs because I don't know whether CUDA cores, for
>>>>>> example, are actually processors. These days marketing trumps
>>>>>> engineering and there's a lot of notions that can't be taken seriously.
>>>>>> Just because a thing has 'core' in its name, is it really a core?
>>>>>
>>>>> You lost me right there after mentioning CUDA cores.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, sorry Paul.
>>>>
>>>> When I question whether CUDA cores are processors, I'm questioning what
>>>> CUDA is at a rather deep level. If a CUDA core is not actually a core,
>>>> it can still be a processor, right? But if I go further and say that I
>>>> don't know whether CUDA is even a processor, I'm making a very basic
>>>> statement that I don't know anything about CUDA, eh?
>>>>
>>>> Regarding whether "CUDA core" is simply a marketing label, I'm just
>>>> being snarky.
>>>>
>>>> Do you understand, or is your difficulty that you don't know/haven't
>>>> heard of CUDA cores?
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are GPUs that are not CUDA last time I checked facts.
>>
>> Okay, that's true, and so ... (?)
> 
> Still supported via other means like OpenCL.

I'll take your word for it, and so ... (?)