by Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Jun 25, 2008 at 06:49 PM
On a sunny day (Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:22:20 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Yevgen
Barsukov <evgenijb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
<019fa8ad-84a7-4c34-a206-658e43e09595@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>Do you think it would be fundamentally possible to Re-use graphic
>cards GPU
>for floating-point math done on non-graphic programs that run on the
>PC, _without_
>creating a special card based on same hardware such as FireStream?
Yes this is possible.
> E.g. while I am not running Crisis on my expensive graphic card,
>could I use my graphic-card resources running Mathcad 10 times faster?
If mathcad would sup****t the card.... some speedup could perhaps be
obtained.
>Also graphic cards being much more
>mainstream compared to floating point accelerators, it looks like such
>dual-purpose solution
>would be much cheaper...
Graphics or video cards have been used for multiple purposes since the
beginning of computing, I once used to keep a copy of CP/M CCP in the
video memory for fast reboot.
At the moment these cards are for example used for accelerating high
definition
TV H264 encoding, to very high speed:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/suche/ergebnis?rm=result;q=GPU;url=/newsticker/meldung/108594/;words=GPU
It is up to the software vendors to sup****t those cards...
