On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Bill Broadley <[email protected]> wrote: > No time line or price, but it sounds like a rather interesting GPU for CUDA > and OpenCL.
Not only CUDA and OpenCL, but also DirectX, DirectCompute, C++, and Fortran. From a programmer's point of view, it could be a major improvement, and the only thing which still kept people from using GPUs to run their code. On a side note, it's funny to notice that this is probably the first GPU in history to be introduced by its manufacturer as a "supercomputer on a chip", rather than a graphics engine which will allow gamers to play their favorite RPS at never-reached resolutions and framerates. Reading some reviews, it seemed that the traditional audience of such events (gamers) were quite disappointed by not really seeing what the announcements could mean to them. After all, HPC is still a niche compared to the worldwide video games market, and it's impressive that NVIDIA decided to focus on this tiny fraction of its prospective buyers, rather than go for the usual my-vertex-pipeline-is-longer-than-yours. :) Cheers, -- Kilian _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
