Brendan Wood <wood@...> writes: > > Based on what I can tell, probably not. The Raspberry Pi does have a > nice GPU, but it's meant to be more of a dedicated video accelerator. > See this comment from Eben Upton, one of the key people behind the > Raspberry Pi: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/431#comment-6375 > > Cheers, >
I think we should lean on Mr. Upton to reconsider. Check out the specs for the newest Intel chipset: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Bridge_%28microarchitecture%29 In a nutshell, the standard computational platform going forward whether you are talking about a desktop computer, a workstation, a post-PC device, or a game console is a multi-core CPU bolted up to a SIMD unit capable of sharing resources with the display. APUs from AMD, APU-like solutions from Intel and NVIDIA, and just about everything Apple makes all have this new architecture in common. If the RPi is supposed to "teach computers" he should rethink keeping the GPU hidden. --Keith _______________________________________________ PyOpenCL mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tiker.net/listinfo/pyopencl
