Visseroth
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I was just curious and started doing some digging around to see if anyone was starting to use GPU processing for any kind of acceleration, because obviously GPUs handle certain types of processing better than a standard CPU and I didn't see much regarding GPU acceleration for FreeNAS nor any plans for implementation.
Granted it would be no small task, but you would think some gpu acceleration would help for things like encryption and video encoding/decoding, maybe even parity calculations.
Since most Intel boards come with a Intel GPU of some kind, granted they aren't anything special, utilizing every bit of a server is more efficient than just letting it sit idle, doing near to, or nothing at all.
Even compiling for a specific video card is better than trying to make GPU acceleration compatible with all cards. Specially if you want stability and obviously an option for those that want or can use that kind of acceleration. Specially now that you can find GPUs with ECC RAM such as the NVidia Telsa and/or Quatro.
So just out of curiosity, does FreeNAS have any plans for GPU acceleration as a option?
One would think it would be handy for VPNs, virtualization, encryptions, video compiling and I'm sure much more.
Thoughts? Opinions?
Granted it would be no small task, but you would think some gpu acceleration would help for things like encryption and video encoding/decoding, maybe even parity calculations.
Since most Intel boards come with a Intel GPU of some kind, granted they aren't anything special, utilizing every bit of a server is more efficient than just letting it sit idle, doing near to, or nothing at all.
Even compiling for a specific video card is better than trying to make GPU acceleration compatible with all cards. Specially if you want stability and obviously an option for those that want or can use that kind of acceleration. Specially now that you can find GPUs with ECC RAM such as the NVidia Telsa and/or Quatro.
So just out of curiosity, does FreeNAS have any plans for GPU acceleration as a option?
One would think it would be handy for VPNs, virtualization, encryptions, video compiling and I'm sure much more.
Thoughts? Opinions?