06-30-2013, 12:16 AM
It might be possible in the future to take advantage of the GPU, but I don't think it's likely. MCServer's primary objective is to be a server hosted on VPSs, which usually means no GPU at all.
Last time I checked the RasPi GPU was not programmatically accessible and they said there were no plans to make it accessible.
I think CUDA or any other GPU-based acceleration could be useful for speeding up the world generator, there are calculations there that are the typical cannonfodder for CUDA - calculating a matrix of values based on another matrix of values, in the form of 2D and 3D noise and the upscaling.
This might work really well with the idea of distributing the chunk generator ( https://forum.cuberite.org/showthread.php?tid=1149 ), in that the ChunkServer component mentioned there could use CUDA to speed up the generation.
Last time I checked the RasPi GPU was not programmatically accessible and they said there were no plans to make it accessible.
I think CUDA or any other GPU-based acceleration could be useful for speeding up the world generator, there are calculations there that are the typical cannonfodder for CUDA - calculating a matrix of values based on another matrix of values, in the form of 2D and 3D noise and the upscaling.
This might work really well with the idea of distributing the chunk generator ( https://forum.cuberite.org/showthread.php?tid=1149 ), in that the ChunkServer component mentioned there could use CUDA to speed up the generation.