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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:26:36 +0000
From:      "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Jozsi Avadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: os that rather uses the gpu?
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimf07gV926cPeSY_sS_aF9INgtGSchzSOokJcXJ@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:46:15 +0200
> Jozsi Avadkan <jozsi.avadkan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses
> > the GPU for "working", not the CPU? [by default]

Not exclusively, no.  But there are developments, still mostly in the
research stage, for software allowing heterogeneous computing
platforms of CPUs and GPUs to offload more work onto the GPUs; and
there are some experimental architectures, like Intel Larrabee, that
are CPU/GPU hybrids.

See, for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)


b.



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