parallax
02-01-2002, 08:10 PM
I dont know if it exists yet, but recently i was thinking about a new way to approach computer resources.
With all the advanced hardware that make up computers nowadays, it seems IMO we're not using the potential computing power to the fullest. Most modern video cards (read nvidia/Ati ie.)
have chips that consist of more transistors than your host CPU,
and are quite powerfull. Your computer might even have multiple devices that use chips capable of performing complex tasks.
Be it rendering real-time 3d graphics, or playing multiple audio streams.
What i was thinking was, why not use all the processing power your computer pocesses, to perform a single task, ie. rendering a animation sequence, or video.
*disclaimer*:D i'm hardly an engineer, but aren't all chips/DSP's/GPU's able to perform basic mathematicall operations? If so, why not design a sort of API/piece of software that can utilize all the chips in your machine, and uses them to render a sequence (this is still CGtalk isn't it..).
So when you're rendering your latest animation, your video card helps your CPU finish the job. :D
I dont know if its possible, or maybe i stepped on some engineering toes :D :D
If this is total crap, you may slap me in the face, and i'll stick to what i do best: drinking that is......
With all the advanced hardware that make up computers nowadays, it seems IMO we're not using the potential computing power to the fullest. Most modern video cards (read nvidia/Ati ie.)
have chips that consist of more transistors than your host CPU,
and are quite powerfull. Your computer might even have multiple devices that use chips capable of performing complex tasks.
Be it rendering real-time 3d graphics, or playing multiple audio streams.
What i was thinking was, why not use all the processing power your computer pocesses, to perform a single task, ie. rendering a animation sequence, or video.
*disclaimer*:D i'm hardly an engineer, but aren't all chips/DSP's/GPU's able to perform basic mathematicall operations? If so, why not design a sort of API/piece of software that can utilize all the chips in your machine, and uses them to render a sequence (this is still CGtalk isn't it..).
So when you're rendering your latest animation, your video card helps your CPU finish the job. :D
I dont know if its possible, or maybe i stepped on some engineering toes :D :D
If this is total crap, you may slap me in the face, and i'll stick to what i do best: drinking that is......