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LibreOffice Lands A Ton Of GPU OpenCL Functions
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Originally posted by Marc Driftmeyer View PostBesides the financial math/linear programming, engineering mathematics,etc the Graphics back-end can most certainly benefit from OpenCL acceleration as more of it goes OpenGL based. And no, OpenMP won't help in this regard.
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Originally posted by Alex Sarmiento View PostopenCL yes, but no using spreadsheets LOL. And openMP does helps in those areas too!
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Originally posted by mmstick View PostI find it funny that people fail to realize the implications of this. This means even lower end devices can use spreadsheets, and create them larger. It means spreadsheets load quicker and expend less energy because OpenCL calculations on a GPU is more energy efficient than carrying it out on a CPU. If you have an AMD APU system, more power. If your Android device supports OpenCL with it's GPU, it's a no brainer.
There is a cost to transferring things to GPU memory. There is a cost to controlling that GPU, and a cost to powering the GPU to higher power states. So for small jobs you end up with a loss, both in power used and in time taken.
This means even lower end devices can use spreadsheets
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostFor the record, when I'm complaining about Calc's slowness, there have been times I waited over a minute for something to finish. On Excel, only a few seconds. I think Calc is a great piece of software, I just think OpenCL will be a major benefit to it.
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Originally posted by curaga View PostNo, it's far from that clear cut, not even on APUs.
There is a cost to transferring things to GPU memory. There is a cost to controlling that GPU, and a cost to powering the GPU to higher power states. So for small jobs you end up with a loss, both in power used and in time taken.
Also, low-end devices do not support OpenCL at all...
That said, I have no idea what the state of things are on ARM. Given how bad the graphics drivers apparently are, I doubt we'll get commonplace and good openCL support on ARM anytime soon.
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Originally posted by oleid View PostActually, that is what I think, too. Proof of concept for AMD. Nevertheless, this code might come handy for some people.
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Originally posted by mmstick View PostThis means even lower end devices can use spreadsheets, and create them larger.
I can't help but feel that if you need GPU acceleration for your spreadsheets on a multi-core, multi-gigahertz CPU, you're probably doing it wrong.
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Originally posted by movieman View PostI remember using spreadsheets on 40MHz SPARC that was emulating a 286 running Windows. I don't think you could find anything much lower-end than that these days.
I can't help but feel that if you need GPU acceleration for your spreadsheets on a multi-core, multi-gigahertz CPU, you're probably doing it wrong.
So yes, this type of advance is very useful, to a lot more people than you guys would ever expect. And yes, it sucks that this is true, because they ARE doing it wrong. They just don't care.
It's mostly useless for home users, because they don't use spreadsheets that way.Last edited by smitty3268; 02 November 2013, 02:56 AM.
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Originally posted by smitty3268 View PostBecause the spreadsheet is all they've ever known, and they're just monkeys repeating what they've been trained to do without any actual thought process.
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