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Definitely a cool idea, but wouldn't a single high-powered GPU pretty much blow away thousands of browsers running JavaScript?
by sant0sk1 16y ago
Definitely a cool idea, but wouldn't a single high-powered GPU pretty much blow away thousands of browsers running JavaScript?
- ericz 16y agoCPU and GPU are good at different tasks. For some jobs a single GPU probably will be much faster but there are some jobs where CPUs will still excel.
- babs474 16y agoWhat about thousands of browsers using their GPUs? http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=1828 http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=1828 I keep bringing this up in these threads cause I hope it will get the interest of some real webGL pros who could really improve on it.
- nkassis 16y agoI've been hoping for some crazy thing like WebCL to happen. I know it's nuts but, imagine how useful that could be for things like scientific apps and engineering apps. Little climate sim in your browser :) Yeah I know, this isn't what browser are meant to do :) But I've been looking a some algorithms for cuda and opencl to extract isosurfaces from volume data and, it could be cool to do so in a browser for medical imaging purposes. Who needs C when javascript can do all that ;p EDIT: In all seriousness, this could be really useful for game developers on mobile. This could help them get closer to native games in terms of performance.