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BrookGPU: General Purpose Programming on GPUs
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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ruin you karma whore.
When this article was first posted 'in the mysterious future' I emailed the onduty editor and pointed out the first link was 404ed.
Nothing was done.
Why again should people pay money to subscribe and do the editors job for them if they will not even check their email to find out what errors we report?
You pay to see stuff early and the editors expect you, as a paying subscriber to do their work for them! Pretty lame when they wont even check their email!
I've long stopped subscribing after having to put up with so many god-damned dupes (which I am getting ripped off for, because I was paying for dupes too).
in a parallel universe, scientists defined another language for parallel computations which is totally different. They achieved 20Giga flops too though....
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Join the jihad today!Try this site for more info on apt-get. I'm not sure if brookgpu packages are there (yet?), but I figured I'd let you know about the site in case you didn't already.
Which Debian do you use, BTW? Anyone know the best version right now (Woody/etc.)?
Keeping the prehistoric Atari/Commodore flamewar alive, I point out that I used to program multiprocesing on my Atari 400. Syncing its ANTIC vertical blank server routines with 6502 client routines through its wonderfully generic SIO scheduler, I was multiprocessing in 1981! Harnessing fast GPUs to speed general logic is at least as old as the Roman spatial metaphor for value, where "superior" means both "higher" and "better", et cetera.
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yes, I am a post debian and not currently a Gentoo nut, but there are reasons why people still use Debian. For it's STABILITY, and the fact that there stable trees are very stable. Gentoo is great for obviously you and me who use linux as a desktop environment and don't care about up times much, but I've had many problems with gentoo after updating packages, going to the extreme of hours on end of trying to fix things up which I shouldn't have to. This is something that shouldn't be, and hence the good reason why debian is still a great distro, just in a different way.
/me almost forgot
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Have modded you down for making them look bad.