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Ask HN: Where else can we use GPU processing?

5 points by uptownhr 13y ago

GPU Processing has become very popular in mining xCoins. Can GPU be used in the web for other use cases? Any examples?

sold 13y ago
Here's a wikipedia link; maybe someone else will give a better description http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_gr...
wnevets 13y ago
for gaming
chjohnst 13y ago
I have heard of some sites using GPUs for generating dynamic images. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL
uptownhr 13y ago
I think everyone knows that GPU can be used for visual graphics like gaming and drawing things on a page with webGL. I'm more interested in computational powers like how it's able to compute bitcoin hashes. Are there cases of GPUs being used in other non-graphical computational cases? Like a mongodb/mysql index search?
- kohanz 13y ago
  GPUs are good at parallel processing, so any task that is highly parallelizable can see massive performance improvements through a GPU implementation. In my field, for example, medical image processing, GPU's are often used on highly computational problems to reduce the time an algorithm or image reconstruction takes.
thenomad 13y ago
I believe that GPUs are very good at video processing. Obviously they're also good for a lot of math-heavy tasks, like fluid simulation, light simulation, etc.
dl8 13y ago
Bioinformatics/Genomics have been beginning to use GPUs for their data processing, since there's vast amount of DNA data that can take a long time to get through.
chas 13y ago
GPUs have been used effectively in implementing graph algorithms. Graph algorithms are tremendously useful and show up all over computing. http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4482 http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4482 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.220.1923&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.220...
davyjones 13y ago
Computation Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Modeling/Analysis, Molecular dynamics, etc.

5 points by uptownhr 13y ago

GPU Processing has become very popular in mining xCoins. Can GPU be used in the web for other use cases? Any examples?

sold 13y ago

Here's a wikipedia link; maybe someone else will give a better description http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_gr...

wnevets 13y ago

for gaming

chjohnst 13y ago

I have heard of some sites using GPUs for generating dynamic images. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL

uptownhr 13y ago

I think everyone knows that GPU can be used for visual graphics like gaming and drawing things on a page with webGL. I'm more interested in computational powers like how it's able to compute bitcoin hashes. Are there cases of GPUs being used in other non-graphical computational cases? Like a mongodb/mysql index search?

kohanz 13y ago
GPUs are good at parallel processing, so any task that is highly parallelizable can see massive performance improvements through a GPU implementation. In my field, for example, medical image processing, GPU's are often used on highly computational problems to reduce the time an algorithm or image reconstruction takes.

thenomad 13y ago

I believe that GPUs are very good at video processing. Obviously they're also good for a lot of math-heavy tasks, like fluid simulation, light simulation, etc.

dl8 13y ago

Bioinformatics/Genomics have been beginning to use GPUs for their data processing, since there's vast amount of DNA data that can take a long time to get through.

chas 13y ago

GPUs have been used effectively in implementing graph algorithms. Graph algorithms are tremendously useful and show up all over computing. http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4482 http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4482 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.220.1923&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.220...

davyjones 13y ago

Computation Fluid Dynamics, Finite Element Modeling/Analysis, Molecular dynamics, etc.