I now do some work with computers that involves making graphics cards do computational work on a headless server. The computational work it does has nothing to do with graphics.

The name is more for consumers based off the most common use for graphics cards and why they were first made in the 90s but now they’re used for all sorts of computational workloads. So what are some more fitting names for the part?

I now think of them as ‘computation engines’ analagous to a old car engine. Its where the computational horsepower is really generated. But how would ram make sense in this analogy?

  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
    171·
    16 hours ago

    Not just crypto and AI fucktards tho.

    Theorethical physicists, astrophysicists, nuclear engineers, mechanical engineers, and countless other professions depend on the computational capabilities it provides.

    Don’t let your anger and bitterness blindside you into thinking it’s for all the bullshit.