[Bf-cycles] HSA

Aurel W. aurel.w at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 23:00:09 CET 2012


Through OpenCL, propably... but opencl support already is a big hassle.

On 13 November 2012 22:36, Nazim Mer <nazim.mer at gmail.com> wrote:

> it allows memory to be shared amongst the GPU and CPU
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> On 13 November 2012 20:48, Nazim Mer <nazim.mer at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> AMD Fusion is the marketing name for a series of APUs by AMD, aimed at
>> providing good performance with low power consumption, and integrating a
>> CPU and a GPU based on a mobile stand-alone GPU. There has subsequently
>> been a disagreement between Arctic (formerly Arctic Cooling) and AMD over
>> the use of the "Fusion" brand name. AMD has thus changed Fusion to
>> Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA).[1] Fusion was announced in 2006
>> and has been in development since then. The final design is the product of
>> the merger between AMD and ATI, combining general processor execution as
>> well as 3D geometry processing and other functions of modern GPUs (like
>> GPGPU computation) into a single die.[2] This technology was shown to the
>> general public in January 2011 at CES. Second-generation "Trinity" parts
>> are expected in June 2012.[3][4]
>>
>> http://hsafoundation.com/
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>>
>> On 13 November 2012 18:44, Matthew Heimlich <matt.heimlich at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> What exactly is HSA?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nazim Mer <nazim.mer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is cycles gonna support this?
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