[wellylug] General GPU programming

[Bruce Hoult]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:12 AM, 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 ... ?

That's why Apple made OpenCL.