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		adrianN on May 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: KGPU — Accelerating Linux Kernel Functions with CU... That's not true. You can do all kinds of things related to polynomials on GPUs with nearly optimal speedup. https://domino.mpi-sb.mpg.de/intranet/ag1/ag1publ.nsf/0/ca00...

powertower on May 7, 2011 [–]

...which the kernel and OS have no need for.

That's the entire point, that there is no usefulness to this outside of very specific applications.

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