In addition to CUDA, OpenCL is an emerging cross platform standard, and even GLSL (the OpenGL Shading Language) can be used to some degree to accelerate these kinds of computations.
Richard
On May 19, 2009, at 10:39 AM, Frank Summers wrote:
We had a talk by the NVIDIA folks at Astro-Viz 09. One
technology they are pushing is CUDA, which can be used
in code to utilize the GPU instead of the CPU. Here are
some NVIDIA CUDA benchmarks for real world apps,
mostly video transcoding:
http://hardware.slashdot. org/article. pl?sid=09/ 05/18/2020205
Tom's Hardware review is quite positive if your application
accelerates the action you want to do. They say that Adobe
CS4 includes some CUDA acceleration, anyone have
experience with it?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/ builtforadobepro s.html
Frank