ATI's Stream Computing on the Way

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 20, 2006 @06:52AM from the mysterious-hardware-rollouts dept.

SQLGuru writes to tell us that ATI has announced plans to release a new graphics product that could provide a shake-up for high performance computing. From the article: "ATI has invited reporters to a Sept. 29 event in San Francisco at which it will reveal 'a new class of processing known as Stream Computing.' The company has refused to divulge much more about the event other than the vague 'stream computing' reference. The Register, however, has learned that a product called FireStream will likely be the star of the show. FireStream product marks ATI's most concerted effort to date in the world of GPGPUs or general purpose graphics processor units. Ignore the acronym hell for a moment because this gear is simple to understand. GPGPU backers just want to take graphics chips from the likes of ATI and Nvidia and tweak them to handle software that normally runs on mainstream server and desktop processors."

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Re:World beyond x86 by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-20 07:08 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Until I get some opensource drivers or documentation to make them, ATI and Nvidia can go fuck themselves.
Could this be....? by C4st13v4n14 · 2006-09-20 07:19 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I'd like to see ATI give us more than a yellow stream.