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NVIDIA Mulls General Purpose Processing on GPUs.

NVIDIA Talks on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Chips

[08/11/2005 02:55 PM]
by Anton Shilov

Graphics chip designer NVIDIA is describing opportunities for general purpose computations on graphics hardware, something which has a prerogative of enthusiasts for years.

One of the courses NVIDIA hosted at Siggraph conference presented a detailed introduction to general-purpose computation on graphics hardware (GPGPU), with emphasis on core computational building blocks ranging from linear algebra to database queries. The course was held by NVIDIA’s engineers, which may indicate that computations beyond computer graphics on graphics chips are explored at NVIDIA.

Modern graphics processing units (GPU) are far more complex than contemporary central processing units (CPUs) and even though they work on much lower frequencies, the number of operations they can perform at once may exceed than of the CPUs. Unfortunately, in order to make GPU calculate something other than graphics, a completely new programming language, or a special translating software, should be written.

Several groups of enthusiasts have explored possibilities to use graphics processing units for general purpose computing, however, no project has actually become a success.

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Latest comment: 08/12/05 03:20:13 AM

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would be very cool if some big software development house such as Adobe would figure out a way to do this.. maybe not all operations but just offloading the heavier operations from the cpu if possible, would be good to know that the most expensive part of the computer would be used for more than gaming =)
[Posted by: Silver  | Date: 08/11/05 06:34:07 PM]
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"Modern graphics processing units (GPU) are far more complex than contemporary central processing units (CPUs)"

Not even close... just because they have more transistors? I don’t think designing a pipeline and vertex processor, and then REPLICATE it several times is very complex....
I will not even talk about the AA "engine" that have been the same since Geforce4 < COPY PASTE

"and even though they work on much lower frequencies, the number of operations they can perform at once may exceed than of the CPUs."

Not even close, CPU can process anything throne at it very fast, look at the software that exists in the all world.
GPU is more like an DSP, do that and only that fast enough.
[Posted by: kaz  | Date: 08/12/05 03:20:13 AM]
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