On 18/06/2011 12:55 PM, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> Quite. GPUs have been merrily parallising a large class of important
>> algorithms for decades now.
>
>    I wonder what gives you that impression.
>
>    The first GPU to support programmable shaders was the GeForce 3 Series,
> released in 2001.

OK. So the early ones were entirely hard-wired. They're still using 
parallel processing to solve a real-world problem. My point was that 
some kinds of algorithms are very easy to solve with parallel processing.

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