Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: AMD joins LibreOffice, adds GPU grunt to free software suite

The way I have seen this actually is that it usually checks your system to
see if the GPU is compatible or not.


On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster <
webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

> On 07/28/2013 12:09 PM, Pedro wrote:
>
> > Hi Michael, all
> >
> >
> > Michael Meeks-2 wrote
> >
> > >         There are very significant optimisations for the software only
> > > core
> > > that will make very much faster even if you have no GPU, we hope they
> > > will also make it use very much less memory too for 4.2 - but that work
> > > is ongoing.
> > I was kind of hoping that some of that code was already included in the
> > current master :)
> >
> > After a brief test with the newest build (Version: 4.2.0.0.alpha0+
> > Build ID: 8b96cfd6caedbad7b3b79e57421a83**4f18c5c511
> > TinderBox: Win-x86@6-debug, Branch:master, Time: 2013-07-27_22:47:00)
> > I quickly found out that it is not so.
> >
> > I tested on my home nettop (a Nvidia ION based system with a 2Cores x 2
> > Threads Intel Atom 330 which supports OpenCL and CUDA according to
> > TechPowerUp's GPU-Z v0.7.2)
> >
> > BTW why are there only Debug daily versions available for Windows? Was
> > this
> > a change of plans or is it just a coincidence?
> >
> > Are Debug builds slower (less efficient) than non-debug?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Pedro
> I have a question about this. . .
>
> With the "GPU" computing power concept, will there be a GPU powered
> version and non-GPU powered version or with there be one version that will
> look to see if the system has a "compatible" GPU processor and use it when
> available?
>
> What little I have dealt with GPU-based computing, I have only seen
> packages that either use GPU "only" [or as much as possible], or CPU
> processing.  I have never seen a package that looks at the system and
> decided what type of processor to use.  As far as I was told, you must
> "compile" your code for GPU processing or for CPU processing.  Well, that
> was what I was told when I was dealing with some "number crunching"
> packages.  They offered the CPU version, the CUDA-GPU version, and the
> API-GPU version, as the different versions for their "crunching" packages.
>
> So,it seem to me if we make LO run on the GPU, then it would be a
> different version than running it on the system's CPU.  Of course, that
> does not take into account any OS option that runs its system on a
> GPU-based system and is acting as the "shell" to allow non-GPU packages to
> run on a GPU.
>
>
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