[fwlug] Processing on a video board [Nvidia]

Jon jonathan.bartels at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 17:17:14 EST 2008


I'll be damned if I can find a reference, but I recall seeing this stuff
before.

A GPU is really good at doing certain kinds of calculations and so it
follows if you are needing to do similar work a GPU is better than a
general processor.

On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 17:10 -0500, John McKelvey wrote:
> I have a colleague in Germany who has harnessed [in some way] an
> Nvidia GPU to do numerical calculations and it appear to be extremely
> fast..  Any references on the web to something similar?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John McKelvey
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