[Radiance-general] high performance graphics cards

[Mark Stock]

Joking? Whoops. Time to call the credit card company and take 
back that $18,000.

Mark

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Gregory J. Ward wrote:

> 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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