POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Suggestion: OpenCL : Re: Suggestion: OpenCL Server Time
5 Sep 2024 17:17:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Suggestion: OpenCL  
From: Mike Raiford
Date: 18 Aug 2009 08:44:43
Message: <4a8aa23b$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:

> I was under the impression that all cores in the bunch would have to 
> take the same branch of the if - you can't have half go one way and half 
> go the other. (That's what makes it a SIMD architecture.)

I'm sorry for jumping in, here, but surely you mean SMP, not SIMD?

SIMD is single-instruction multiple data.. e.g. performing an add on 4 
WORD values simultaneously with one instruction.

-- 
~Mike


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