Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…Yeah. They were shoehorning CG, which was built for graphics. They were translating everything that they were doing into graphical terms, even if it was not a graphical problem they were trying to solve, and writing it in CG. This is not for the faint of heart, so to speak. Everything is sort of metaphorical. He's a quantum chemistry researcher and he's basically telling the hardware, okay, so imagine this data that I'm giving you is actually a triangle. Imagine that this way that I want to transform the data is actually applying a little bit of lighting to the triangle. I want you to output something that you think is the right color pixel and then I will translate it back into the result that I need for my quantum chemistry. You can see why that's suboptimal. He thinks this is an interesting market, he wants NVIDIA to serve it. If you really want to do that right, it is a massive undertaking. It was 10+ years to get to the company to this point. What CG was is like a small sliver of the stack of what you would need to build for developers to use GPUs in a general-purpose way like what we're talking about. It's like they worked with Microsoft to make CG. It's like the difference between working on CG and Microsoft building the whole .NET framework for developing on Windows, or today even better, Apple. Everything Apple gives to iOS and Mac developers to develop on Mac.…

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