[vox-tech] GPU calculations

Richard Harke rharke at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 13 10:20:44 PDT 2006


On Tue June 13 2006 08:44, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> I recently read some papers where people performed an FFT on Nvidia
> hardware.  The idea is that a GPU is capable of performing certain types of
> operations very quickly, faster than a CPU.
>
> Has anyone looked into this?  I've seen one project port FFTW to be
> a GPU-enhanced FFTW.
>
> Any idea on what it would take to write a "hello world" type program where
> 1 + 1 is thrown onto a GPU and the result is returned to a local variable?
>
Why don't you look at   www.gpgpu.org
GPGPU -> General Purpose computing on a GPU

Richard Harke



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