Audio supercomputer hidden in your graphics card?

Dr_s99 · 09-05-04, 09:12 AM

Cambridge (MA) - Nvidia's graphic cards may have much more to offer than simply drawing pixels on the screen: A startup company has found a way to translate audio signals into graphics, run them through the graphics card and overcome a common issue of limited audio effect processing performance in computers.

find the article here http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...02_135943.html

it sounds so interesting...lol

r2d2d3d4d5 · 09-05-04, 10:02 AM

A new home for Soundstorm perhaps? If you want it then you'll need to make sure you get an nVidia Graphics card. Might be worth it though.

**ricercar** · 09-05-04, 10:53 AM

When I worked for NVIDIA, we had some meterologists gang together 16 Quadro FX 1000 cards, for parallel-processing weather computations in OpenGL. It was fascinating.

Sazar · 09-05-04, 11:03 AM

thats pretty kewl

doing all the work on one discrete product sounds good to me

GlowStick · 09-05-04, 11:08 AM

It seems like a cool idea, however i do wonder why dont sound cards already do this?

Eg someone sould come up wiht an api kinda like OpenGL or something but for audio that is focused towards mixing/producing music. So then they can have acclerated mixing or whatever that program dose. However i thought 'soundcards' were saposta do that anyways oh well.

**ricercar** · 09-05-04, 11:21 AM

A soundcard is basically just a DSP with accessories. Any floating point processor can handle that kind of computation (as long as it has appropriate drivers).

Dr_s99 · 09-05-04, 11:44 AM

oh... neat...

Edge · 09-05-04, 03:47 PM

Hmm, so maybe someday, we'll see a "Geforce Audigy" which outputs both audio and video! Heck, why not throw a network card on there while we're at it. Oh wait, they already have that, it's called an Nforce

. Anyway, interesting stuff...

09-05-04, 09:12 AM	#1
Dr_s99 geForce 4 Ti 4600 Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 339	Audio supercomputer hidden in your graphics card? Cambridge (MA) - Nvidia's graphic cards may have much more to offer than simply drawing pixels on the screen: A startup company has found a way to translate audio signals into graphics, run them through the graphics card and overcome a common issue of limited audio effect processing performance in computers. find the article here http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...02_135943.html it sounds so interesting...lol __________________ System info(s): ----- Gaming/Work System : ASUS G1 RAM: 2.0Gb Hard drive: 160 Gb VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA 7700Go 512Mb OS: Windows Vista Home Pre. ---------------------------- Server/Work system: CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ RAM: 1.0Gb Hard drive: 30 IDE,120 IDE VIDEO CARD: Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4600 OS: OpenSuse 10.2, Windows 2003

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GlowStick CoD4! Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 5,786	Re: Audio supercomputer hidden in your graphics card? It seems like a cool idea, however i do wonder why dont sound cards already do this? Eg someone sould come up wiht an api kinda like OpenGL or something but for audio that is focused towards mixing/producing music. So then they can have acclerated mixing or whatever that program dose. However i thought 'soundcards' were saposta do that anyways oh well. __________________ Intel i7-2600K, Corsair 8Gig, Corsair H100, Corsair 650D, Corsair HX750, ATi 6970, WD Caviar Black 2TB Sony Vaio SB: i7, 8Gig, Intel 320 300gig

09-05-04, 11:21 AM	#6
ricercar fugue master Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: silicon valley Posts: 1,603	Re: Audio supercomputer hidden in your graphics card? A soundcard is basically just a DSP with accessories. Any floating point processor can handle that kind of computation (as long as it has appropriate drivers). __________________ I used to drive a Heisenberg, but whenever I'd glance at the speedometer, I'd get lost.

09-05-04, 11:44 AM	#7
Dr_s99 geForce 4 Ti 4600 Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 339	Re: Audio supercomputer hidden in your graphics card? oh... neat... __________________ System info(s): ----- Gaming/Work System : ASUS G1 RAM: 2.0Gb Hard drive: 160 Gb VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA 7700Go 512Mb OS: Windows Vista Home Pre. ---------------------------- Server/Work system: CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ RAM: 1.0Gb Hard drive: 30 IDE,120 IDE VIDEO CARD: Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4600 OS: OpenSuse 10.2, Windows 2003

09-05-04, 03:47 PM	#8
Edge 3d animator for hire! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Minnesota, USA Posts: 3,564	Re: Audio supercomputer hidden in your graphics card? Hmm, so maybe someday, we'll see a "Geforce Audigy" which outputs both audio and video! Heck, why not throw a network card on there while we're at it. Oh wait, they already have that, it's called an Nforce . Anyway, interesting stuff...

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