It was way back in January when Bill Dally was announced as NVidia’s newest Chief Scientist, and he’s been pretty busy since then. NVidia’s made some huge pushes in CUDA and GPGPU programming since then, and VentureBeat got the chance to sit down with him and talk about what he believes to be the future of the GPU.
VB: How big is GPU computing going to get?
BD: If you think of it as throughput computing, it’s going to be all of computing, except in certain niches where single-thread performance is critically important. It’s an interesting transition where throughput computing is mostly graphics now. It’s starting to make progress in scientific computing, video processing, security and a whole bunch of areas. It will become the default for the way we do computing. It’s that food chain. You deliver more value to the user by writing a parallel program.
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