[Nottingham] Crazyly Geekie Linux

[Peter Chang]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Martin wrote:

> Just for a really wild idea:
>
> Linux running /on/ a _G_ PU anyone?

No, not likely. Despite the name GPGPU attached to the concept, the 
programmability of the GPU is limited to stream processing.

> Even get HURD to take advantage of the array processors in the latest of
> the nVidia GPUs?

Is this architecture any different from the Cell and its SPE? Don't Sony 
offer a Linux SDK for the PS3?

Peter


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