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  Re: Paralel GPU processor support for Nvidia CUDA architecture  
From: Louis
Date: 19 Nov 2009 06:10:00
Message: <web.4b0526c782bfbbd427a6896b0@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Louis schrieb:
> > Parallel processing already has proven itself in V3.7, so getting 512 cores to
> > work parallel should get us impressive results I guess.
>
> Say, just to make sure - you didn't happen to read Darren New's recent
> posting in povray.off-topic and took it serious, did you?
>
> Just search the POV-Ray newsgroups (both this one and others) for "GPU"
> or "CUDA" for the problems involved, and the current position of the POV
> developers' team (and others) on this matter... or, well, at least the
> position from two or three months ago.

Ok, so I wasn't the first to think of it :-s

After thinking about it, I guess such one should only start supporting such
architectures when a platform has been established that runs on at least two
competitor's hardware.

For my use, these cards are a little too expensive any way.


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