[NBLUG/talk] Uses for GPGPU?

[William Tracy]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Tim Preston <timp at sonic.net> wrote:
> OK. Am I missing something? We are talking about increased processing power
> and utilizing the processors on all devices within a system in parallel to
> accelerate programs that need to crunch lots of code and the only thing
> we're talking about is hacking?

Well, the NSA was one of the early customers for supercomputers ...

My own interests for using GPGPUs are rather closer to their original
intended purpose: Raytraced graphics and physics simulations. :-P

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