Hi, I'm still in the middle of a project but I am having quite some interesting stuff here. There is a strong-crypto subproject which uses FPGAs with OpenCL. I have learned that also the ATI and NVIDIA GPU drivers support OpenCL in addition to their proprietary stuff (CUDA, etc.). During a presentation, the tech-guy said that e.g even modern game engines also use CUDA or OpenCL for the physics engine and those hypothetically could also run on the FPGAs then. I was wondering if anybody has ever given thought to this stuff. Considering that a reasonably good GPU has about 20x the computing power of a quadcore CPU, using OpenCL as some kind of abstraction layer (there's also OpenCL implementations for CPUs, of course) would be a hell of a cool thing. Power users or people who want to build simulators for "real" training could just buy another GPU or an FPGA board to get an extreme performance boost.
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