Re: Mersenne: GIMPS accelerator?

[Russel Brooks]

John R Pierce wrote:
> Virtually all GPU's in use today are fixed function hard wired graphics
> accelerators.  There's no way to use them for general purpose computational
> use.   Also, there's no APIs, and each chip vendor has a radically different
> architecture.

Too bad, the idea might also have given us an interesting screen
saver as a side effect!  :-)

Cheers... Russ

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