GPGPU programs

[Lonyo]

Does anyone know what developments there are in terms of actual applications that end users can run on their graphics cards?
Specifically I'm talking about video encoding for now.

Obviously there is F@H etc, and physics stuff, but nothing I know of as of yet which will accelerate end user tasks.

Any ETA's or updates on hardware support in video encoders?

 

[taltamir]

as far as i know there is supposedly a working beta for a 264 encoder, but they are not ready to start selling it yet... there is still some work needed for it.

 

[vgkarthik88]

theres been some talk from Adobe to accelerate Adobe and Macromedia stuff with GPUS. that should take a considerable amount of stress of the CPU. expect to see those implemented in Workstation Cards.

 

[aka1nas]

I thought CS3 on Vista already taps into WDDM to do some sort of compositing with certain operations?

 

[Mgz]

Flash 10 has hardware 3D acceleration/GPU Composing and shader stuff

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: vgkarthik88
theres been some talk from Adobe to accelerate Adobe and Macromedia stuff with GPUS. that should take a considerable amount of stress of the CPU. expect to see those implemented in Workstation Cards.

why? CUDA works on both workstation and regular off the shelf cards with the exact same capability.

Workstation are for CAD programs where the drivers are optimized towards different types of calculations usings the various GPU components in the days before the SP.

 

[vgkarthik88]

no i dont know if this is a CUDA only implementation since i rem reading this will work for Ati and NV cards. i think workstation cards jus have a diff BIOS and more memory. a friend of mine bought a workstation card and flashed a gfx card vbios on it and it worked fine! i was quite surprised.

 

[taltamir]

ok, bios and drivers...

Still the point of workstation cards is to render CAD graphics in real time, then when you submit the final render it is done entirely in the CPU.

CUDA should allow the GPU to do that final render, using the SP units of either workstation or regular card. Which is a different type of operation compared to the real time rendering the GPU makes.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

apparently power director 7 ultra can do transcoding on amd 4850 but i can't seem to get it to work.
anyone else figure it out.