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Date:      Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:07:23 -0430
From:      Moises Castellanos <m2o7i1@gmail.com>
To:        bf1783@gmail.com
Cc:        Jozsi Avadkan <jozsi.avadkan@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: os that rather uses the gpu?
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:56 PM, b. f. <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > 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)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_%28microarchitecture%29>;
>
>
> b.
>

 The only i've heard about is Yellow dog Linux enterprise for nvidia cuda
http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/ydel/cuda/

 Regards



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