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