GLSL, was: Re: Harvard vs. vonNeuman

From: emanuel stiebler <emu_at_ecubics.com>
Date: Wed Sep 29 14:23:12 2004

Deano Calver wrote:

> Of course people aren't used to the idea that there graphics chips have
> significantly more programmable floating point power than there CPU. So
> only games programmers get to use all that wasted power (its in the
> order of 50-100 GFLOPS currently, should pass a TFLOP in 5 years).

Not only game programmers. Check :

http://www.gpgpu.org/

for far more applications ...
Received on Wed Sep 29 2004 - 14:23:12 BST

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