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I really hope that they're successful. I feel like GPGPU is too immature of a field for it to already get locked down two one or two implementations. That said

I really hope that they're successful. I feel like GPGPU is too immature of a field for it to already get locked down two one or two implementations. That said, they've got a long road ahead of them. GPU development iterates much more quickly that that of CPUs; there has been an entirely new hardware architecture (Fermi), three of four driver updates, and two major CUDA API revisions released by NVIDIA in the 6 months since I did my independent study on the topic.

CTOPathScale 16y ago
Oh we fully know the challenges we face in making a fully automatic solution.. Also keep in mind that if we're successful it would only be to Nvidia's benefit to help us. In many ways I'm glad the GPU is so volatile since it pushes things forward at a much faster pace. Legacy would only get in the way and while Fermi is a leap in technology, but it's not a complete rewrite. There's still enough familiar things on there so that we had a good start even from day 1. Most importantly is that HMPP directives are now an open standard which we'll be defining and improving along with other industry partners.