Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: mpx (mpx.delete@this.nomail.pl), August 2, 2010 12:19 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Vincent Diepeveen (diep@xs4all.nl) on 7/31/10 wrote:
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>If you write a program for a CPU, you can produce it and try to sell it. Your market is big.
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>If you do real big effort to have some calculations done on a GPU, there is simply
>not a big market. Maybe 1 or 2 clients will be interested, if you are so lucky to
>have such companies or organisations as a client.
That's why OpenCL is important. You can create a program in OpenCL and run it on either GPU or CPU.
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>If you write a program for a CPU, you can produce it and try to sell it. Your market is big.
>
>If you do real big effort to have some calculations done on a GPU, there is simply
>not a big market. Maybe 1 or 2 clients will be interested, if you are so lucky to
>have such companies or organisations as a client.
That's why OpenCL is important. You can create a program in OpenCL and run it on either GPU or CPU.
