Re:Linus Torvalds on AVX512
by zozbot234 on Sunday July 12, 2020 @05:59AM
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> Because outside artificial intelligence, graphics and audio, there is little else that common applications would use the GPGPU for, so the large majority of software developers keeps ignoring heterogeneous programming models.
I think you got this backwards - the lack of developers' interest is what leads to the mistaken impression that GPU compute is only good for multimedia and FP-crunching workloads. Even looking at the success of GPU compute in mining cryptocoins (only ASIC's do better) ought to be enough to tell you that we could do a lot more with them if we cared to.
I think you got this backwards - the lack of developers' interest is what leads to the mistaken impression that GPU compute is only good for multimedia and FP-crunching workloads. Even looking at the success of GPU compute in mining cryptocoins (only ASIC's do better) ought to be enough to tell you that we could do a lot more with them if we cared to.