[magick-users] IM on GPUs?

[Scott Gifford]

Anthony Thyssen <anthony at griffith.edu.au> writes:

> =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnter?= Bachelier on  wrote...
> | Hello,
> | 
> | is someone working on ideas how IM could
> | use the capabilities of GPUs?
> | 
> | I read recently about Google buying Peakstream,
> | a startup that develops programming tools for
> | applications to use the power of MultiCore and GPUs
> | whereas the applications were originally not
> | designed to do this. So I conclude there are possible
> | ways for IM to somehow utilize GPUs.
> | Anything concrete? Thank you!
> | 
> | 
> What is a  GPU?

Probably Graphics Processing Unit, or the increasingly fast processors
in modern video cards.  See:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit

I haven't heard of a way to do this with ImageMagick, but it would be
really interesting, especially on a server that doesn't do much video
output but came with a fast video card.

-----Scott.