I was reading a review of the GeForce 200 series GPUs coming soon and saw there was support for the IEEE-754R double-precision floating-point standard. So is this something where we can actually get a port of prime95 or mprime to the CUDA architecture?
I haven't looked at the details of how they are doing the double precision (is it baked into the hardware or emulated using single precision for example), but if the performance increase for double-precision operations scales linearly with the FLOPs numbers, then we are looking at the GTX280 GPU being ~10x faster than a quad-core Penryn processor. Anyone else following the GPGPU applications care to chime in? -Jeremy _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
