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LeJosh said:
It's used by those because it's pretty much the only option available right now. If OpenCL managed to produce industry strength programs with either NV tesla or AMD's firething (can't remember the name) I'm sure we would see further advances in research etc. Seen as how NV want to monopolise their CUDA program and keep it as a closed platform it's a shame really but any company would do that if they managed to write a terrific C++ prog.
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sigh...
 
LeJosh said:
It's used by those because it's pretty much the only option available right now. If OpenCL managed to produce industry strength programs with either NV tesla or AMD's firething (can't remember the name) I'm sure we would see further advances in research etc. Seen as how NV want to monopolise their CUDA program and keep it as a closed platform it's a shame really but any company would do that if they managed to write a terrific C++ prog.
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Thats the problem, Nvidia have put time and money in to CUDA, which appears can not be be said for OpenCL as it is more open but leads to less direction.
 
Ejizz said:
See above mate... Oops :o
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Thats a fair point, but it is one application as stated - intel's new tech is fantastic for encoding, clearly. The points I'm trying to make are:

1) CUDA is NOT a closed standard (see my earlier post with link to the excellent CUDA development page which is RAMMED full og downloads, SDK's, updates, case studies and help files.)

2)Also on my post, look at the link regarding power consumption and efficiency using CPU alone. Obviosly us mere mortals do not have access to super computers with thousands of GPU's and CPU's so we can only offer less accurate and scalable comparisons based on our lowly GeForce set ups at home.

3)Clearly, most of the great minds and scientific/ mathematical crunchers in the world see CUDA as a fantastic piece of technology, otherwise they'd have stuck to racks and racks of Xeons.

As a footnote, this is proving to be a really interesting debate - more threads like this please :D

LeJosh said:
Explain?
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See above - its not a closed standard mate ;)
 
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