Ubuntu10.10 supports GPU hardware acceleration

Ubuntu10.10 supports OpenCL. OpenCL is a programming language that allows you to access GPUs and other parallel processors. This means that the graphics card Renderer can be used in any application. Multimedia or image processing applications such as GIMP or GIMP plug-ins are the best candidates for such optimizations, which are commonly referred to as "Hardware acceleration. If you decide to install the Nvidia proprietary graphics card driver (to achieve this, you only need to click here), then CUDA (Nvidia hardware acceleration API) and OpenCL support will also

Ubuntu 10.10 comes with OpenCL support. OpenCL is a programming language that allows you to access GPUs and other parallel processors. This means that the graphics card Renderer can be used in any application. Multimedia or image processing applications such as GIMP or GIMP plug-ins are the best candidates for such optimizations, which are commonly referred to as "Hardware acceleration.

If you decide to install the Nvidia proprietary graphics card driver (to achieve this, you only need to click it), CUDA (Nvidia hardware acceleration API) and OpenCL support will also be installed at the same time.

There is also a python-PyOpenCL Software Package for pyopencl, allowing developers to use Python to fully access OpenCL.

This means that the future GIMP plug-ins can be written in Python to provide OpenCL and hardware acceleration support, which will bring incredible performance (1000 times faster, or even more ). I am very happy and confident to expect that the first batch of applications and plug-ins that use this amazing new feature will soon be available.

Example of a script from the PyOpenCL Standard Check Program: