Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> 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.

It should be feasible to port to CUDA now that it supports 64-bit float and
recursion. Whatever happened to that guy who was trying to port Povray to CUDA?
Did he have any working code?

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