Lv schrieb:
> My question is along the lines of this paper.
> "http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/555028.html";
> 
> Is there anybody who developed a unit or did any work for using GPU's
> for numerical computation with FPK/Lazarus?

Only in C.

> 
> Also, if anyone knows, what are the increase in speed expected over the
> best Intel or AMD has to offer compared to a current best GPU?

Hard to say, depends on your application. A modern graphics card has a
peak performance of ~500 GFLOPS, a modern core CPU ~25 GFLOPS, so if you
can explore the performance of the GPU, you can get a speed up of 20 in
theory.

> 
> 
> Developing a floating point (if such a GPU exists in double or extended
> precision) unit on a GPU should not be so difficult as the Unit only
> need to do a few basic elementary functions from which all the remainder
> of functions and special functions can be obtained.
> 
> Here is an overview of GPU issues.
> "http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:SastpUrSdOMJ:www.gpgpu.org/sc2006/workshop/Apple_GPUintrinsics.pdf+gpu+numerical+floating&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us";
> 
> 
> Anyone have any info?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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