Let’s Get Visual
Remember in Minority Report how Tom Cruise does his computing by gesturing on a transparent display? The UI concept is so captivating that it’s since been copied in a host of other venues, including TV commercials. Well, imagine a conventional video editor meeting a Minority Report UI then getting filtered through a Nintendo 64. That’s Super LoiLoScope, and “MARS” is the code-name for its new, CUDA-enabled version. No, MARS (as I’ll refer to it for brevity) isn’t Adobe Premiere. It’s not even Premiere Elements. Heck, it’s not even PowerDirector 7. But it is wickedly simple to use once you wrap your head around its hypergraphical, drag-and-drop-o-rama design. Better yet, it makes use of CUDA in H.264 encoding, decoding, and playback, making this one of the most thorough CUDA implementations seen yet.
Nvidia and LoiLo (the name of the company behing SuperLoiLoScope) set expectations very high with this application. The companies point out that while a quad-core CPU can compute at 100 GFLOPS, a 240-core GPU like the GTX 280 can nail 900 GFLOPS. As such, we should expect to see a significant encoding performance improvement with a GTX 280. Obviously, our results should be lower with the 9600 GT and 9800 GTX, but on a percentage improvement basis, we could reasonably expect to leave TMPGEnc in the dust thanks to the broader CUDA implementation.
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Good article. Very interesting. Pity you can't spell measuRing!
Great article!! I ran Seti@home on my GPU alone for quite a while. Although it is not a powerfull card in the slightest, a 8500GT, it still completed workunits faster than my CPU could (even more using the optimized apps). However, it has damaged my system as there are a few problems with running it. The heat generated from running the card processors at full all the time is a real pain. The fans on the lower end cards simply are not good enough to cool the cards, even if manually upping the fanspeed to 100% with RivaTuner. Secondly, if you allow it to use your GPU when you are using the computer, total utter graphic lagg even when reading webpages.
Overall, it is a good technology, still has a few bugs which need to be solved and also the lack of support for ATI cards fustrates me. I am an avid BOINC user, I crunch Rosetta@home on all of my CPU's however I now let the GPU's run idle because the problems it causes. I will probably re-enable GPU usage if I upgrade my card in the future.
Cuda will never be suported by ati,its a Nvidia thing.
Also an 8500gt is just not powerfull enough for cuda+multitasking a pc.IMO. Hell thats a under $50.00 gpu.
Lumpy, even an 8500 would be advantageous considering the speed hike..what's so bad about the CPU getting extra help from something that would otherwise just be displaying raster graphics or waiting for Crysis to fire up?
But look at AMD's platform solutions: highly integrated, highly efficient..can't say the same for Intel. I'd rather wait a bit longer for the software to be stable rather than use the GPGPU equivalent of an Intel GMA chipset trying to run GTA IV..
But look at AMD's platform solutions: highly integrated, highly efficient..can't say the same for Intel. I'd rather wait a bit longer for the software to be stable rather than use the GPGPU equivalent of an Intel GMA chipset trying to run GTA IV..
OpenCL is AMD's answer