Replacing the CPU with the GPU

I've been keeping an eye on this type of thing ever since I read a paper about using the GPU for generic tasks. We are beginning to see GPU's enter a new area, where they function like math coprocessors of the old days. This is going to be great for the bioninformatics industry.

[1] http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=229585

Published Friday, August 25, 2006 11:02 PM by Jesse Ezell
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# re: Replacing the CPU with the GPU

Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:25 PM by Matthew C. Tedder

I wrote neural simulator in C++ and it's really good.  I want to use it as the basis for the AI in an online, 3D first-person-shooter game but the fluid dynamics are impossibly slow.. That kind of processing is realistically impossible due to the serial nature of CPU processing.

So I began learning FPGA and discovered it isn't difficult.  In fact, being inherently parallel, it greatly simplifies fluid dynamics.  This caused me to realize that conventional computers must die for the sake of human progress.  

Perhaps GPUs are the way to make that conversion happen.  Not to FPGA, per se, but to fully parallel processing.

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