BrookGPU: General Purpose Programming on GPUs

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday December 21, 2003 @04:57AM from the bump-maps-make-me-giggle dept.

An anonymous reader writes " BrookGPU is a compiler and runtime system that provides an easy, C-like programming environment (read: No GPU programming experience needed) for today's GPUs. A shader program running on the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra achieves over 20 GFLOPS, roughly equivalent to a 10 GHz Pentium 4. Combine this with the increased memory bandwidth, 25.3 GB/sec peak compared to the Pentium 4's 5.96 GB/sec peak, and you've got a seriously fast compute engine but programming them has been a real pain. BrookGPU adds simple data parallel language additions to C which allow programmers to specify certain parts of their code to run on the GPU. The compiler and runtime takes care of the rest. Here is the Project Page and Sourceforge page."

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Like the good old days by fiskbil · 2003-12-21 05:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Reminds me of the good old days when you used the processors in the C64 tapedrive to compute stuff. Wouldn't want to waste those precious cycles.

I'm sure a lot of old farts will tell me how they used some serial controller to compute stuff back in the 60's and that I'm just a little kid. :)
Re:Fast Fourier Transform by BiggerIsBetter · 2003-12-21 07:01 · Score: 4, Funny

Multiply power by N.

You work for Nvidia, don't you?

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