Robert Myers wrote:
Eugene Miya, who moderates comp.parallel, has advised ignoring the
graphics manufacturers because, according to him, they don't know what
they're doing. That could mean nothing more than that they have
thought that single-precision floating point would cut it, a mistake
that IBM has repaired slowly. Or he could be expressing an opinion
that's opposite to what you imply. He can't and won't say. In any
case, be careful of new wine in old wineskins.

Probably because he isn't talking about the same thing. Current GPUs are
separate, and require special API software to program for. What AMD is
coming out with is a direct interface to GPUs through an x86 instruction
set front-end. There are too many solutions out there if you have to
support everything, so with this solution you only have to worry about x86.


Yousuf Khan