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Fujitsu Siemens calls for graphics cards manufacturers to open up
Graphics card manufacturers should open up their libraries fully so programmers can start taking advantage of hardware in new ways, Fujitsu Siemens' chief technology officer Joseph Reger announced at its annual Augsburg conference.
Reger went on to say Nvidia's Cuda programming tools were not enough, claiming "if you buy a graphics card today you have no idea how to use it."
Stream computing performed on high end graphics cards has been getting lots of press recently. Kaspersky recently ran an anti-virus scan on a Radeon HD 2900XT 21 times faster than using the regular instruction based method on a top AMD dual core. Graphics cards are also far superior in many biomedical modelling and astronomy calculations and we've looked at, and continue to investigate, Windows password hacking with an Nvidia card.
"These are the first steps away from the von Neumann principles" Reger said, where the data stream decides what's happening, rather than classical instruction driven execution. Despite his own hype though, Reger proclaimed data centres packed full of graphics cards won't ever happen.
Posted by Emil Larsen on November 12, 2007 | Permalink
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