[wellylug] General GPU programming

Tim McNamara paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz
Sat Nov 6 09:20:09 NZDT 2010


On 6 November 2010 09:12, tink <andrej at paradise.net.nz> wrote:

> On 5 November 2010 16:09, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>
> wrote:
>
> > Are there any people in the Wellington area actually using the GPU for
> > general processing?
>
> Just wondering whether, in light of the fact that pretty much every
> vendor of graphics chip-sets does "their own thing", there's such
> a thing as "General GPU programming" to begin with ... ?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Andrej


This is a big problem. The APIs for all major vendors (ATI, Intel, nvidia)
diverge fairly signifcantly. However, there are some efforts to unify
them[1].

tim

[1] http://www.khronos.org/opencl/
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