[Radiance-general] high performance graphics cards

[Gregory J. Ward]

I was joking!

Nice of David to write such a cogent reply...

-G

> From: Chris Jessee <chris.jessee at kingmill.com>
> Date: August 17, 2006 11:27:15 AM PDT
>
> Not knowing anything about GPUs I ran your response by a researcher  
> at Nvidia.
>
> From David Luebke, research at  Nvidia.
>
>> GPUs are a very different architecture
>> from CPUs and porting anything to them is a significant effort, even
>> if the problem fits the GPU model nicely. That said, there is a  
>> lot of
>> research activity on using GPUs for real-time global illumination.  
>> But
>> nothing out there yet approaches the goal of a straight-up C compiler
>> or a GPU that runs Linux. One could certainly accelerate Radiance w/
>> GPUs but that would be a full-blown research project.
>
> Perhaps not all that practical after all. But it never hurts to ask.
>
> Take care,
>
> Chris Jessee
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Gregory J. Ward wrote:
>
>> Sure.  Write a C compiler for the card, port Linux to it, then  
>> compile Radiance on there.  Should be a snap!
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>>
>>> From: Chris Jessee <chris.jessee at kingmill.com>
>>> Date: August 16, 2006 7:52:58 AM PDT
>>>
>>> I just saw this announcement about a new Nvidia graphics card.
>>>
>>> http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/10042/
>>>
>>> At $18,000 it is a bit out of my price range but it begs the  
>>> question, would it be possible to harness the horsepower of such  
>>> a card to render Radiance scenes in realtime?
>>>
>>> Chris Jessee
>>
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