On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 12:22 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
> Is anyone running any GPGPU code on Solaris? I ask because with AMD
> Fusion coming down the road, it seems that most AMD64 machines will
> have access to GPU based computation functions.
> 
> With Solaris and Sun moving to a highly threaded programming model
> (Fortress), might these functions be incorporated into the OS? 
> 
> http://ati.amd.com/developer/techreports/2006/I3D2006/Peercy-Performance-Oriented_Data_Parallel_Virtual_Machine_for_GPUs(SIG06_Sketch).pdf
> 
> From my understanding one of the applications would be implementing highly 
> parallelized sorting networks. (Sorting seems pretty general purpose to me)...

Interesting, if the CPU/GPU end up becoming 'one', how thing would
Xserver operate with it? could it support it without the need of
proprietary drivers? in terms of mesa, could mesa get added support for
those functions?

Are they looking at using it solely in desktops/workstations or do they
see it scaling down into laptops?

Matthew

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