>>>>>>>>>>Under heading 'Holy Moly!"
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>>>>>>>>>>Just a note to say that my GPU is faster than my CPU by quite a bit. It consistently processes five hours and thirty minutes of data in four minutes and seventeen seconds. That's pretty good performance.
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>>>>>>>>>>Carry on having fun.
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>>>>>>>>>I must not know much about speed because I don't even know what a GPU is.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Graphical Processing instead of Central Processing. It is in an NVIDIA 9800 graphics card. To use the capability requires a form of C language named CUDA. If CUDA isn't used then the GPU isn't used.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks.
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>>>>>>You're welcome. By the way, Barak Obama has moved to Canada this morning.
>>>>>
>>>>>I should pretend I got that ;-)
>>>>He is here. I saw him in Ottawa on TV
>>>
>>>OIC. Not quite the same as moving there but now I get it. IIRC American Presidents traditionally make their first foreign visit to Canada. Maybe he wants to pick up one of those personal supercomputers to go with his Blackberry.
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>>Actually he stopped for a Beaver Tail on the way back to the airport.
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>Sounds like something Clinton would have liked ... <bg>

And not just any old Beavertail, but the specially devised 'Obamatail'. It was created for a tailgate party at the Canadian Embassy in Washington to mark Obama's inauguration.

Served with cinnamon and sugar, along with a whipped-cream "O" topped with chocolate sauce and a splash of maple.