[PD] Pd and gpgpu

[Georg Holzmann]

Hallo!

> it is true that the gpu is unused most of the time and could be used to 
> do fast calculations, but the main output for graphicscards is the 
> screen and reading back into ram can be slow. (of course "slow" is a 
> relative term). I also see a problem in the different formats for audio 
> and images. most graphics cards are optimized for vec4 processings (4 
> parallel color channels). and audio...

Well, there are already quite some papers/software for audio processing 
on the gpu (see e.g. 
http://www.gpgpu.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/Audio%20and%20Signal%20Processing/index.html).

But AFAIK nobody did this with pd up to now ...

LG
Georg