Nvidia = CUDA ATI =???

[Grinja]

I was wondering if ATI had anything to rival Nvidia's CUDA.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Nothing and mainly because they dont have the necessary resources to do this either. But that doesn't mean AMD/ATi cards will be left out in the cold. nVIDIA actually said straight from the horse's mouth that they encourage AMD users to take advantage of CUDA. Basically any GPUs under a certain requirements can utilize CUDA whether it be a nVIDIA GPU or ATi GPU.

 

[ViRGE]

Nvidia is to CUDA as ATI is to Brook+ and CAL.

 

[IlllI]

didnt ati have something called monkey something or other?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: clandren
didnt ati have something called monkey something or other?

Rendermonkey, but that was a shader editor.

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Nvidia is to CUDA as ATI is to Brook+ and CAL.

Yup.
http://ati.amd.com/technology/...amcomputing/index.html
http://ati.amd.com/technology/...omputing/sdkdwnld.html

 

[Cookie Monster]

Now i remember. I haven't heard about CAL or Brook+ since it was announced im afraid. Just how are these progressing?

Right now, i know that CUDA will enable SuperPi to run on GPUs real soon.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

i'm surprised no one mentioned CTM (close to metal) yet.

http://www.google.com.pk/searc...+ati&btnG=Search&meta=

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: tanishalfelven
i'm surprised no one mentioned CTM (close to metal) yet.

http://www.google.com.pk/searc...+ati&btnG=Search&meta=

CTM is deprecated, it was so low-level that it could only be used on R5xx making it a dead-end solution. Its replacement is CAL, which is slightly higher level and as such can be used on newer architectures going forward.

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Now i remember. I haven't heard about CAL or Brook+ since it was announced im afraid. Just how are these progressing?

Right now, i know that CUDA will enable SuperPi to run on GPUs real soon.

Brook+ is actually fairly well established in academia. It was a Stanford project that AMD adopted and further augmented for their own needs. For all practical purposes, it's just as functional as CUDA, although obviously the language differences mean that CUDA and Brook+ code aren't quite compatible even if they are both supersets of C. CAL doesn't get a lot of public attention because it's not often used by developers directly, rather it's the assembly code that other applications can generate and hence is used by toolset developers like RapidMind. The NVIDIA equivalent is PTX , if anyone is interested.

 

[Atreus21]

What the hell is CUDA?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Atreus21
What the hell is CUDA?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA