Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: hobold (hobold.delete@this.vectorizer.org), August 4, 2010 4:05 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
AM (myname4rwt@jee-male.com) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>(and people were using GPUs for computing back when 9700 Radeons were
>around I think, so 2003 or so, some might have used GFX hw for computing even earlier)
I dimly recall an anecdote from the more glorious days of SGI. Allegedly, somebody had built a 32 bit integer bulk computation library from 8 bit OpenGL primitives. That was sometime last millennium.
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>(and people were using GPUs for computing back when 9700 Radeons were
>around I think, so 2003 or so, some might have used GFX hw for computing even earlier)
I dimly recall an anecdote from the more glorious days of SGI. Allegedly, somebody had built a 32 bit integer bulk computation library from 8 bit OpenGL primitives. That was sometime last millennium.