GLSL, was: Re: Harvard vs. vonNeuman

emanuel stiebler emu at ecubics.com
Wed Sep 29 14:23:12 CDT 2004


Deano Calver wrote:

> Of course people aren't used to the idea that there graphics chips have 
> significantly more programmable floating point power than there CPU. So 
> only games programmers get to use all that wasted power (its in the 
> order of 50-100 GFLOPS currently, should pass a TFLOP in 5 years).

Not only game programmers. Check :

http://www.gpgpu.org/

for far more applications ...




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