GPGPUs

[Gambler]

On 8/13/2013 12:27 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> The era of GPGPUs for Bitcoin mining are now over, they moved to ASICs.
> The new market for GPGPUs is likely the banks, and other "Big Data"
> folk. True many of the banks are already doing some GPGPU usage, but it
> is not big as yet. But it is coming.
> 
> Most of the banks are either reinforcing their JVM commitment, via
> Scala, or are re-architecting to C++ and Python. True there is some
> C#/F# but it is all for terminals not for strategic computing, and it is
> diminishing (despite what you might hear from .NET oriented training
> companies).
> 
> Currently GPGPU tooling means C. 

There is some interesting work in that regards in .NET:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/Accelerator/

Obviously, it uses DirectX, but what's nice about it that it is normal
C# that doesn't look like it is written by aliens.