Chapter 8 Graphics Interoperability
Since this book has focused on general-purpose computation, for the most part we’ve ignored that GPUs contain some special-purpose components as well. The GPU owes its success to its ability to perform complex rendering tasks in real time, freeing the rest of the system to concentrate on other work. This leads us to the obvious question: Can we use the GPU for both rendering and general-purpose computation in the same application? What if the images we want to render rely on the results of our computations? Or what if we want to take the frame we’ve rendered and perform some image-processing or statistics computations on it?
Fortunately, not only is this interaction between general-purpose computation and ...
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