Your GPU card does more than just output video. The GPUs on these cards are designed for brute force calculations and chugging through numbers. They're designed for physics engines, running through protein folding calculations, and rendering high quality video in real time.
If you want to equate them to a design in the past, think of them as really really really powerful math co-processors. CPUs are designed for short command queues and calculations that are hard to predict the next step, while GPUs are designed for long command queues and easily predictable calculations.
...and we've been using teraflop scale on desktops since 2008.
Have you observed a difference in attitudes, priorities, or outlooks in talent as a corollary to their titles?
As someone who also lives in Florida, I can explain.
1. Very little preparation for the type of weather that a hurricane can cause. In Florida, we have storm drains that take away most of the water that a hurricane causes. Add in building codes that require buildings to be designed for hurricanes (typically category 3) and utilities that are designed specifically for hurricanes, and you'll find that down here, things are pretty robust by design. New Jersey and New York didn't have that type of preparation and you had buildings collapse.
2. Record storm surges. In some places, the storm surge was over 13 feet where the harbor was only designed to handle the (then historic record) 12 feet, causing massive flooding.
3. Fires. Gas lines caught fire, causing over 100 homes to burn to the ground.
4. In New Jersey specifically, they had a berm go under water due to the storm surges, causing even more damage.
Ultimately, take a look at the damage predictions and you'll see why its called a superstorm. Wind was only part of the issue.
Doesn't have time for Firefly or Star Trek.
False. That's what multitasking while compiling or testing is for.
We have found that the best defense against major unexpected failures is to fail often. By frequently causing failures, we force our services to be built in a way that is more resilient. We are excited to make a long-awaited announcement today that will help others who embrace this approach.
We have written about our Simian Army in the past and we are now proud to announce that the source code for the founding member of the Simian Army, Chaos Monkey, is available to the community.
Do you think your applications can handle a troop of mischievous monkeys loose in your infrastructure? Now you can find out.
God made the integers; all else is the work of Man. -- Kronecker