GPU's as floating point coprocessors

[Bill Baxter]

Andrei Khropov wrote:
> Karen Lanrap wrote:
> 
>> http://folding.stanford.edu/FAQ-ATI.html declares ATI's X1900-series 
>> to be the most advanced coprocessor ever ( rumour: 375 GFLOPS as 
>> opposed to the 25 GFLOPS of the lastest conroes /rumour).
>>
>> How to address this power with D?
> 
> Have you seen Accelerator project of MS Research?
> 
> Paper:
> http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?type=technical%20report&id
> =1040
> Video: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=229585
> Download:
> http://research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/download.aspx?FUID=50ee362a-c4d
> 7-4fe6-9018-1b7f9c1dd5dc
> 
> Maybe it's not a bad idea to create something similar for D.
> 

Hmm.  It sounds pretty much like OpenMP.
http://www.openmp.org/drupal/

--bb