Yes, indeed - I'm aware of 'how it works', just wondering 'might it happen'. A few hundred thousand imacs and a lot of mac pros would make a reasonable economic case I suspect, but if the things I've heard about GPGPU on ATI 2/3xxx cards are right the rewards might not be worth the effort.
Chris 2009/9/7 Christopher Wright <[email protected]> > So is there any intention to support the older ATI cards in a future >>> update? >>> >> >> OpenCL like OpenGL abstracts the api from the hardware and I think it >> would be ATI's job to expose the hardware to OpenCL through some sort of >> driver similar to OpenGL drivers. >> >> I may be off my rocker but I think that is how it would work. >> > > > Conceptually, Ben, you're right on with the relation to APIs, drivers, and > hardware. However, I believe chris (wood)'s question was more along the > lines of "is this in the works", not so much of an "is it possible". The > former being an economics question, the latter being an engineering one. > (many things are possible that are never realized because they're > economically unsound). > > -- > [ christopher wright ] > [email protected] > http://kineme.net/ > >
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