On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Paul Gress <pgr...@optonline.net> wrote:
> On 08/ 4/10 09:40 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote:
>
> I wasn't refering to Illumos adding anything. I just mentioned, that nVIDIA
> does write the driver for all versions of Solaris and that they are
> therefore
> the focal point of contact, just like you mentioned. I only asked you, as
> you
> are in good contact with nVIDIA and might have known anything about their
> possible plans w.r.t. CUDA or OpenCL... ;-) But: I know: No Comment...;-)
>
> And: Yes, if there's business, they'll do it, that's for sure...
>
>
>
> Yes I believe that would be true if the OS was developed for Workstations.
> The only commitment I see from Oracle is Servers and Databases.  Would CUDA
> help there?
>

CUDA and OpenCL seem to be heavily used in HPC for general purpose
calculations - not necessarily for displaying to a screen.  For
example...

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1226945999108.html

-- 
Mike Gerdts
http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
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