Re: [boost] [gsoc] Interest check for 3d geometry proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc] Interest check for 3d geometry proposal
From: Fernando Cacciola (fernando.cacciola_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-26 22:00:53

Hi Joel,

> 
> Gpu are limited by the speed of the bus and you'll end up spending too 
> much time sending data back and forth.
> 
To measure the convenience of using the GPU against the slow down of the bus 
bottleneck depends on what you offload to the GPU.

Stating that *G*raphics algorithms, among all things, wouldn't gain much from 
using the *Graphics*PU can't make sense IMO. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any 
reason to have a GPU to begin with (or GPUs would still be just dumb renderers 
as they used to be in the distant past)

FWIW you can google for the term GPGPU to see how the field of computing in the 
GPU is advancing.

Best

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Fernando Cacciola
SciSoft Consulting, Founder
http://www.scisoft-consulting.com