[Open-graphics] CPU on graphics card

[Timothy Normand Miller]

On 4/17/07, Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch> wrote:
>
> Although you can see shaders as a form of CPU,
> they are a very specialized form of CPU. And they
> have to be specialized to achieve the performance needed.
> Thus i would not talk of shaders as CPUs.

We can think of the CPU that I architected and which Petter is working
on as "practice" for more specialized processors used in shaders.  But
the architectures will be totally different.

-- 
Timothy Normand Miller
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti
Open Graphics Project