Modern GPUs As General Computing Devices

[sweatlaserxp]

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/oskin/thompson-micro2002.pdf

This is a good piece of research if you have the time to read through it, although some of you probably know a lot about it already.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

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Yes this type of thing has been mentioned before. It's usually refered to by Stanford's name of <A HREF="http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/brookgpu/" target="_new">BROOK Processing or BROOK GPU</A>.

There is alot of potential in it, but having Blade servers of graphics cards like many of us envisioned doesn't seem like it's likely use.

Thanks for the additional info.


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