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name: 'Stream Processing'
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short: 'A talk by Assistant Professor Michael McCool'
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date: 'Tue Mar 25 2003 16:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)'
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online: false
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location: 'MC2065'
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Stream processing is an enhanced version of SIMD processing that permits efficient execution of conditionals and iteration. Stream processors have many similarities to GPUs, and a hardware prototype, the Imagine processor, has been used to implement both OpenGL and Renderman.
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It is possible that GPUs will acquire certain properties of stream processors in the future, which should make them easier to use and more efficient for general-purpose computation that includes data-dependent iteration and conditionals.
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