Finally: The GPGPU Killer App

If you’ve been following my past general-purpose graphics processing coverage, you already know about all of the things that modern shader-equipped GPUs are capable of doing besides graphics:

• Audio, still image and video encoding, decoding, transcoding and other transformations
• Physics processing
• Database searches and sorts
• Other highly parallelizable integer and floating point functions

Now, however, I’ve come across the killer application for GPGPU; one that requires no re-coding, no specific degree of hardware evolution within a target system, and no particular API support within a target operating system. See and listen for yourself:

Bravo!

Happy holidays, everyone And thanks to Gizmodo for the heads-up.