Non graphical applications of GPU's

[Shalmanese]

Hey guys,

I found this link that I thought you would be interested in.

Enjoy!

 

[Agent004]

Impressive

It seems the gain is rather siginificant

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Kind of a continuation of this thread.

An interesting idea anyways...

 

[Mingon]

I thought the main problem was that the agp bus whilst 2 way capable is not very able.

 

[andyman7]

i saw that link from a SIGGRAPH article about david kirk
cool stuff
hopefully i can take a few courses in stuff like this later on in college

 

[Mingon]

Any sort of computation of a collection of data where elements interact with other elements with high locality is extremely efficient on a GPU. In fact, the GPU can be from 10 to 100 times faster than a Pentium 4 in such situations, says Kirk. Scientific computations such as linear algebra, Fast Fourier Transforms, and partial differential equations can also benefit greatly from GPUs. One research group is looking to break the Linpack benchmark world record using a cluster of 256 PCs with GeForce FXs! Another scenario that surprised Kirk was when a development team recently tried to use a GeForce FX CPU to perform database key sorting. When coded to take advantage of the parallelism and pipelining in the GPU, parallel key sorts and searches can occur much faster than using general CPUs, on the order of 4-5x faster than the Pentium 4, according to Kirk.

The Future of 3D Graphics

 

[zephyrprime]

Interesting. I would have thought that the fact that 3d cards only use 32bit floats rather than 64bit floats would be a problem.