GPGPUs

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 15:26:26 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 15:21:37 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> source-code and the runtime can do the rest. But hide it so 
>> well that it makes sense to write generic DMD code this way.
>
> You might want to generate code for coprocessors too, like
>
> http://www.parallella.org/
>
> Or FPGUs...
> Or send it over to a small cluster on Amazon...
>
> Basically being able to write sensible DMD code for the CPU and 
> then later configure it to ship off isolated computations to 
> whatever computational resources you have available (on- or 
> off-site) would be more interesting than pure GPGPU which 
> probably is going to be out of date real soon due to the shifts 
> in technology.

Why not just generate SPIR, HSAIL or PTX code instead ?

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Paulo