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AMD breaks Teraflop limit (with Firestream 9250 GPU PCIe expresscard).
On a sunny day (Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:22:20 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Yevgen
Barsukov wrote in : 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 support 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...594/;words=GPU It is up to the software vendors to support those cards... |
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