[Gh0stRAT]

IIRC people were already converting their data into texture maps and writing their SIMD instructions as shaders operating on those textures before Nvidia released CUDA.

[PH95VuimJjqBqy]

^ exactly.

What people find contentious is this claim that they specifically did it for ML/AI. That's not why they invested the way they did.

[hnlmorg]

I remember some DAWs supporting pluggins to run PCM over GPU back in the early 00s.

It was hugely experimental but does demonstrate that the idea of a GPUs being used for compute isn’t a recent one.

[mratsim]

Ah yeah there was an article on HN about that a couple years ago. GPGPU before Cuda, now onto a treasure hunt ...