<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 November 2010 09:12, tink <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrej@paradise.net.nz">andrej@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 5 November 2010 16:09, Tim McNamara <<a href="mailto:paperless@timmcnamara.co.nz">paperless@timmcnamara.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Are there any people in the Wellington area actually using the GPU for<br>
> general processing?<br>
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</div>Just wondering whether, in light of the fact that pretty much every<br>
vendor of graphics chip-sets does "their own thing", there's such<br>
a thing as "General GPU programming" to begin with ... ?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Andrej</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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].</div><div><br></div><div>tim</div>
<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.khronos.org/opencl/">http://www.khronos.org/opencl/</a></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></div>