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Today NVIDIA announced support for the Python language on its flavor of GPGPU (CUDA).

Manifold GIS uses CUDA to enable some accelerated raster operations but it is not a programmable environment and is limited to what functions its developer has provided.

With Python, used in many GIS packages including ArcGIS and QGIS (along with the numpy and sciypy packages), being supported as a first-class CUDA language, what are the prospects for being able to leverage GPGPU in these mainstream GIS packages?

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Has anyone tried using the Anaconda Python distribution with ArcGIS/QGIS? – blah238 Mar 18 at 18:41
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this article is about the benefits of GPU based geoprocessing operations blogs.esri.com/esri/apl/2010/03/30/… – geogeek Mar 18 at 18:52
A great read, but it is somewhat disappointing to see that that article is 3 years old -- I'm not expecting to see anything like that with 10.2, but maybe at the Developer Conference next week they'll have some surprises. – blah238 Mar 19 at 0:38

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