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GPLGPU: An Open-Source GPU
- nyar 12y agoDelete "sample page" or at least remove it from the primary menu.
- frozenport 12y agoWebsite could use an about page. I have no clue what this is, and I wrote a few hundred lines lines in CUDA this morning.
- adamnemecek 12y agoIt's a Verilog implementation of a GPU with late 90's architecture.
- unwind 12y agoIt could also (really) use some screenshots. But perhaps that's way too early, although there's talk about results in terms of tests passing and failing. I imagine that for a GPU, some of those would involve some type of rendering.
- userbinator 12y agoIt'll be interesting to see how well this turns out; I remember hearing about opengraphics.org a few years ago, which seems to have reached prototype hardware stage and then died. GPUs are still one of the most closed parts of a computer, so this is certainly a step in the right direction. There's also this, which is only VGA-compatible, but similarly hasn't had much success: http://wacco.mveas.com/ http://wacco.mveas.com/ ...but there's this complete PC-on-an-FPGA, including a VGA-compatible controller: http://zet.aluzina.org/index.php/Zet_processor http://zet.aluzina.org/index.php/Zet_processor
- mng2 12y agoThis seems to be the code from the "Open Source Graphics Project" Kickstarter that ran last year. They didn't get anywhere near the $200K goal for 2-D, much less the $400K goal for 3-D. Glad to see that it's getting out there anyway.
- simias 12y agoAgreed. Here's the failed kickstarter which contains a video of the project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/725991125/open-source-graphics-processor-gpu?ref=live https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/725991125/open-source-g... And previous hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6520447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6520447
- rjsw 12y agoI don't think they are the same. Look earlier in the blog, this is a design that the author has created by himself.
- simias 12y agoThis says otherwise: http://hackaday.com/2014/08/19/open-source-gpu-released/ http://hackaday.com/2014/08/19/open-source-gpu-released/ A few interesting comments there too.