I know, graphics cards are basically floating point processors, question is can you remeber the oss website/working group that was pionerring radically alternative use's? . If so i could contact the people making the open graphics card and pass the details on. As i remeber the OSS website/working group said that the instruction set for most graphics card was a little 'limited' and could be expanded in order to make alternative proccessing easier to perform. A OSS graphics card with these capabilities would kick ass over most of the other graphics card on the market.
I remember reading an article on slashdot last year, about a software group who had developed software that used graphics cards to proccess other information other than graphics data. In particular i remember someone used a graphics card to do the proccessing for a neural network.
Since the group talked about hardware limits involved in designing software for ordinary graphics cards, surely a opensource graphics card could have these features builtin and the two groups could work together?. Just wondering if anyone remebers the article and could post a link to the website, can't find it...it's been at least a year since the article was published.
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I know, graphics cards are basically floating point processors, question is can you remeber the oss website/working group that was pionerring radically alternative use's? . If so i could contact the people making the open graphics card and pass the details on. As i remeber the OSS website/working group said that the instruction set for most graphics card was a little 'limited' and could be expanded in order to make alternative proccessing easier to perform. A OSS graphics card with these capabilities would kick ass over most of the other graphics card on the market.
I remember reading an article on slashdot last year, about a software group who had developed software that used graphics cards to proccess other information other than graphics data. In particular i remember someone used a graphics card to do the proccessing for a neural network. Since the group talked about hardware limits involved in designing software for ordinary graphics cards, surely a opensource graphics card could have these features builtin and the two groups could work together?. Just wondering if anyone remebers the article and could post a link to the website, can't find it...it's been at least a year since the article was published.