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Hi,

Over the recent days was often thinking
about Chris M. Thomasson. I am somehow
familiar with his work on sci.math etc..

even back in times before there was the
gexit (Google Groups Exit) and AP (Archimedes
Plutonium) was enriching the forums.

So whats the evolution here?

Well we had shadertoys:

https://www.shadertoy.com/

Now have computetoys:

https://compute.toys/

The https://compute.toys/view/3138 (Spinning
Terrain) example drives my GPU on the Ryzen
up to 91 degree, normally it has 44 degree

temperature or something.

LoL

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:

Hi,

Current workaround, for workloads which take
longer, regedit TdrDelay and TdrDdiDelay:

GPU drivers crash with long computations (TDR crash) https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/substance-3d-painter/using/technical-support/technical-issues/gpu-issues/gpu-drivers-crash-with-long-computations-tdr-crash

Future solution is work slicing. Make the
GPU inferencing granular. Since I am using

a Hack virtual machine, adding a "Heartbeat"
should be possible, Dogelog Player has

already some auto-yield (*). Mostlikely this will
then prevent the OS from killing the GPU.

Will see! WebLLM etc.. can also do it.

Bye

(*) A browser does also kill a long runnning
JavaScript, it was a similar issue.

Chris M. Thomasson schrieb:

On 7/8/2026 11:44 AM, Mild Shock wrote:

Hi,

We can thank the gamers, that GPUs developed muscles:

The global video game industry contributes hundreds
of billions to worldwide GDP, generating over $500
billion in total market volume. The global software
and services market alone accounts for an estimated
$255 billion, easily surpassing the film and recorded
music industries combined.

How it started:

URP Cookbook: Compute shaders - Part 1: Particle fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omZap7XHxKc

[...]

Compute shaders are pretty nice. Except then the damn os can cancel

them because they took too long! God damn windows! ;^)

I have ported my field to compute shaders and geometry shaders. They

work great! A compute shader can take a field from say 30 seconds on a
high performance multi-threaded cpu version down to around 3 seconds.
The compute shader is using atomic operations for thread, or warp sync.

The geometry shader makes my field in real time.

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