On 8/13/2013 12:27 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > The era of GPGPUs for Bitcoin mining are now over, they moved to ASICs. > The new market for GPGPUs is likely the banks, and other "Big Data" > folk. True many of the banks are already doing some GPGPU usage, but it > is not big as yet. But it is coming. > > Most of the banks are either reinforcing their JVM commitment, via > Scala, or are re-architecting to C++ and Python. True there is some > C#/F# but it is all for terminals not for strategic computing, and it is > diminishing (despite what you might hear from .NET oriented training > companies). > > Currently GPGPU tooling means C.
There is some interesting work in that regards in .NET: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/Accelerator/ Obviously, it uses DirectX, but what's nice about it that it is normal C# that doesn't look like it is written by aliens.