[linux-audio-user] newbie q: making a machine

[Christian Henz]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 05:04:17AM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:32:39AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > Theres also the potnetial of using high end graphics cards to run DSP
> > sofrtware, there quite good at FFTs aparently, something like 20x faster
> > than a good P4.
> 
> <question mode="dumb">
> But how do you get the result back? 
> can graphics cards give data back to the cpu, or is it just a 1-way trip
> to the monitor?
> </dumb>
> 

<answer mode="guessing">
Lacking a programmable GFX-card I've only looked briefly at Cg, but I think
it's runtime allows you to transmit/fetch data to/from progs running on the 
GPU.
</answer>

;-)

cheers,
Christian Henz