OrionWorks wrote: >>From Terry, > >> Yeah, they also make a supercharger for your PC: >> >> http://fxvideocards.com/PNY-NVIDIA-Tesla-C1060-Compute-Board-p-16426.html >> >> which plugs into your standard PCI slot. Massively parallel >> processing for $1500 and change. >> >> Terry > > But how does one take advantage of up to 240 streaming processing > cores? Does one need to install special s/w?
When it comes to programming a parallel machine, there is no free lunch. Compilers can auto-roll a little of what you need to do, but it takes a pretty fancy compiler and they're not typically giving those away on every street corner. > > The web page states rather cryptically: "The only C language > environment that unlocks the many-core processing power of GPUs to > solve the world's most computationally-intensive challenges". Ok... > Any C compiler??? ...or does one need to purchase a specially designed > C language compiler. How about C++, C#??? or other programming > languages. > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks >
