NVidia compiler to offload work to GPU

[caferace]

ref: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070219-8878.html

Today, NVIDIA announced the release of beta versions of the SDK and C compiler for their Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) technology. The C compiler includes a set of C language extensions that will enable developers to write C code that targets NVIDIA's GPUs directly. These extensions are supported by software libraries and a special CUDA driver that exposes the GPU to the OS and applications as a math coprocessor....

-jim

 

[BlackMountainCow]

Basically yes. Same thing like F@H and ATI, but much more open, to be used by anybody with C skills.

 

[petrusbroder]

It is not the first time these ideas float up. Lets hope that this time there will be some real software - imagine Rosetta or Seti or QMC om a system with SLI-cards ... quite a lot of FLOPS!
I would even buy cards for my comps - quite a few of them!

 

[caferace]

whoops. Wrong thread.

-jim

 

[Insidious]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
It is not the first time these ideas float up. Lets hope that this time there will be some real software - imagine Rosetta or Seti or QMC om a system with SLI-cards ... quite a lot of FLOPS!
I would even buy cards for my comps - quite a few of them!

But not for F@H? They can use them now
(of course this comes from an Nvidiot (me) that won't put ATI cards in my PCs...) :roll:

-Sid

 

[caferace]

Here is my dream. Someone figures out how to integrate it with BOINC. How cool would that be?

-jim

 

[petrusbroder]

Could probably be done using the new programming tools ...

 

[caferace]

Here is the dev board:

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=62

Someone get crunching the two together with the BOINC API:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/api.php

Please?

-jim

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: caferace
Here is my dream. Someone figures out how to integrate it with BOINC. How cool would that be?

-jim

I'd definitely get another 8800 and go SLI then.