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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