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Multicore & RapidMind

Postby Technomancer » Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:49 am

I thought the programmers here might find this of interest. In part it expands on some of the ideas discussed in the article I posted previously on the Cell processor used in the new PS3's

http://spectrum.ieee.org/jan07/4837

http://www.rapidmind.net/
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

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Postby Mithrandir » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:02 pm

Very intersting read. After all that work I did on writing my own parallel processing algorithms back in the day, this could very well be a timesaver.

I'm still waiting for standard IDEs to afford programmers this luxury, though. Until then, it's *still* going to be a back-room tech.
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