I read once that OpenGL was concieved as a multi-platform 3D manager for 
3D GPUs, regardless the brand of the Video Card, so this could be useful 
IMHO, I think also that anyway would be A LOT of effort to write 
efficient code, to actually make a harmonious coordination with any 
CPU/GPU combination. Among possible obstacles to solve:
-Calculate accurately the CPU-GPU latency.
-Calculate accurately GPU-RAM latency
-Calculate accurately CPU-RAM latency
-CPU-GPU coordination latancy.

I have also read that the GPU is been used as a second powerful math 
co-processor, so I think POV-Ray should take advantage features like 
this. Would be great for POV-Ray. It already gave a great jump to 
paralelism in ver 4 I think we are half way to get to CPU-GPU paralell 
rendering. Maybe there are some Open Source free-wares already on The 
Net that could help in a practical way to embed this feature 
faster/easier, who knows...

I just love this program, I only want THE BEST tech for it :)

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