Internet Explorer 9 – The next killer app for GPU Computing
Today Microsoft introduced the BETA version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9). The big news is that IE9 will be GPU accelerated. It is architected to be the first browser designed to take advantage of modern hardware and modern OS capabilities
Nvidia participated in their press release:
“Internet Explorer 9 enabling GPU-accelerated HTML5 is a milestone for visual computing,” said Drew Henry, general manager of GeForce and ION GPU business unit at NVIDIA Corp. “By harnessing the power of NVIDIA GPUs, Internet Explorer 9 removes the glass ceiling for Web developers, enabling them to build graphically rich, high-performing Web applications.”
They have also shared their thoughts on their blog.
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ntersect/2010/03/visual-computing-has-another-killer-app.html
“Today, with introduction of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft gives us another milestone for visual computing. Internet Explorer 9 includes a new JavaScript engine, support for HTML5 and hardware accelerated graphics and text. Internet Explorer 9 is the first browser designed to take advantage of modern hardware, resulting in graphics and performance improvements throughout the browser including the first to deliver hardware accelerated scalable vector graphics( SVG); the first to enhance JavaScript engine performance with the benefit of shifting from the CPU to the GPU; and the first to deliver GPU-Powered HTML5.”
Exciting new development but it remains to be seen how well it will be implemented and how well it will perform. Stay tuned as we aim to continually give you the latest on this and all tech news.
Leon Hyman
Senior Editor
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I hope its DirectCompute based…
@DaFox:
It’s Direct2D based, which is a fairly new subset of Direct3D (DirectX). It utilizes the GPU also though. DirectCompute is more for general computations, as the name suggests. Direct3D is for 3D graphics based computation/rendering, and the newer Direct2D is for 2D based things. Each API has it’s own special set of functions to accelerate many different jobs in these respective fields.