[Openmcl-devel] Speed, compilers and multi-core processors

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On May 20, 2009, at 4:45 AM, Rainer Joswig wrote:

> 3) GPUs.    The LARGEST source of compute power for parallel  
> computation in desktop computers and even many laptops:
>      Graphic Processing Units.


tomshardware.com ran this a couple of days ago:

<http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-cuda-gpgpu,2299.html>

It's a summary of real-world results from apps using Nvidia's CUDA.  
For certain things, like video encoding, they're seeing a 4x speedup  
using the GPU over using the CPU. In addition, when they use the GPU,  
it leaves the CPU free for other tasks.

regards,

Ralph





Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
raffaelcavallaro at mac.com