using graphics cards as generic FLOP crunchers

[Greg Lindahl]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:09:09PM +0100, Eugene.Leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:

> Also, the hardware is getting stale awfully quickly, 
> so your investments would seem to have a very short half life time.

That's what the VSIP standard is for -- among other things, it's
fairly good for abstracting away the difficulties of using attached
array processors. It's pretty big, but if you wanted to go down this
path, it would be good to write your software to use it.

-- g