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Take advantage of powerful GPU's?

I'm somewhat of a computer dork (Going into computer engineering next fall) and I had the thought the other day that video card processors are far better suited for type work that scientific research is mostly composed of so I'm asking if there will ever be any plans to harness the power of peoples graphics chips ontop of their cpus to do computations. I would love it if you guys did add that. smile
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Re: Take advantage of powerful GPU's?

We have covered this before.

Sadly, GPUs are less suited than you might imagine. Their architecture is significantly different, and is optimised purely for graphics.

The killer, though, is the floating point handling. For graphics, fast is more important than right, so they often use faster, less precise algorithms. You can imagine what this would do to a molecular simulation!

GPUs may reach the point where this is both possible and practical, but for now it is neither.

Good luck with your computing studies.
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Re: Take advantage of powerful GPU's?

Oh, I was not aware of the inaccuracies of GPU's, that kinda stinks. We can hope that they get accurate enough to be used. Thanks for replying.
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