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Former Member
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Does the existing agent take advantage of the computer's video card? If not, could it?
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Former Member
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Hello Spring and Chaos,
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=16782 In short, people are looking at it but I am unaware of any projects being prepared for the WCG that use it. Lawrence |
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piropeople13
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DirectX and OpenGL are widely used standards for games and graphical applications. Why can't a distributed computing program be written to one of those languages? Is that as simple as it seams?
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In a word, no.
DirectX and OpenGL aren't languages, they are APIs with an associated graphics pipeline architecture. They don't help at all with general purpose computing. Overlaying a general purpose layer on top of a specialised graphics library is very difficult. The only way to get good results is by adapting the task to take advantage of the architecture. To sum up: using GPUs is difficult, and only suitable for specialised tasks. |
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