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    Coding for GPGPU

    I am looking into writing applications to run on a GPU, and at the moment nividias CUDA seems the easiest option. From what I've read about CUDA so far it seems to be basically programming in C with some extensions.

    Is there anyone here with some experience, or knows a bit about it, since I'm trying to gauge how much of a challenge this is going to be for me. I have no experience of programming in C, but a couple years experience in Java.

    Any insight into CUDA and programming for GPUs in general would be great

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    Re: Coding for GPGPU

    Yeah, I've been looking into doing a bit of CUDA programming as well. From others I've heard that it's pretty trivial to get a basic bit of code up and running. And the documentation is pretty comprehensive.

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    Re: Coding for GPGPU

    Its a VERY intresting feild of developement in CS this. (least it is to me, monte carlo simulations n all).

    Basically NVida allow you to have 'normal' programming ideas, because you can do branches, i belive ATI don't offer anything like that yet?

    So CUDA is the buisness.

    But this is also quite intresting:
    http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/accelerator/homepage/
    but too much abstraction means its too damn slow. However i like it and think its worth playing with
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