jhu wrote:

> Lots of processing elements on one chip. Knight's Corner-based products (which
> supposedly contain 50 processing elements with 512-bit SIMD and run x86 code)
> are still at least one year away. So, the question is: is it worth porting
> Povray to CUDA or is it better to just wait until Knight's Corner comes out?

Well, I think purchasing the new super computer chip for home use
will be quite a bit further off in the future, while most people have
or can get their hands on a graphics card supporting CUDA. And of
course graphics cards increase in performance over time, too.

I also wonder whether this architecture is just "compatible with
x86 application" or actually gives automatic performance boosts to
x86 applications that are not especially optimized for it.

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