> Not only CUDA and OpenCL, but also DirectX, DirectCompute, C++, and > Fortran. From a programmer's point of view, it could be a major > improvement, and the only thing which still kept people from using > GPUs to run their code.
all of the above but C++ can be used on the current hardware. CUDA Fortran is already available in PGI 9.0-4 (public beta). > On a side note, it's funny to notice that this is probably the first > GPU in history to be introduced by its manufacturer as a > "supercomputer on a chip", rather than a graphics engine which will > allow gamers to play their favorite RPS at never-reached resolutions > and framerates. Reading some reviews, it seemed that the traditional > audience of such events (gamers) were quite disappointed by not really > seeing what the announcements could mean to them. > After all, HPC is still a niche compared to the worldwide video games > market, and it's impressive that NVIDIA decided to focus on this tiny > fraction of its prospective buyers, rather than go for the usual > my-vertex-pipeline-is-longer-than-yours. :) yes, indeed and such a strong skew towards HPC worries me. there is almost no word how gamers are going to benefit from Fermi apart from C++ support. in the mean time RV770 offers 2.7 TFlops SP and 1/4 of that in DP which positions it pretty close to Fermi in that respect. in RV770, quick integer operations are in 24-bit and i wonder if the same still holds true for Fermi. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
