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[2023 day 8] some guy on reddit manged to brute force part 2 in 57 seconds on a gpu (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/advent_of_code

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It's a good thing I killed my CPU attempt after 2 hours then!

I would have definitely died in that sandstorm!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know shit about stuff l7ke this, but it's interesting. What does this mean?

[+] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] coloredgrayscale 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One way to get the data is to render to a (hidden) surface/canvas. It's just bytes to the computer, so just dump the result data in the display buffer. Then you take a "screenshot" and interpret the RGBA values as data.

[–] graphicsguy 3 points 1 year ago

Graphics Programmer here.

More likely you would just write data to a buffer (basically an array of whatever element type you want) rather than a render target and then read it back to the cpu. Dx, vulkan, etc. all have APIs to upload / download to / from the GPU quite easily, and CUDA makes it even easier, so a simple compute shader or CUDA kernel that writes to a buffer would make the most sense for general purpose computation like an advent of code problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brute force what? Part 2 of what?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Erm, do you know where you are?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't speak for the other guy, but I definitely don't!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

OP is talking about advent of code day 8 part 2 solution. I can't give you details of the problem (because that's just to long) but you're not supposed to brute force the solution because it would take trillions of iterations to get to the right combination.

But the guy in the picture did it anyway.

I forgot to add, you're in the advent of code community so that alone should be enough context to understand OPs post. The questions the other guy asked are the equivalent of going to a formula 1 community and asking "Who the fuck is Toto Wolff and what does Mercedes have to do with anything?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What does my auntie Mercedes have to do with anything? I'd like to know too, you know?