nvidia C compiler

[TheUnforgiven]

I have read about nvidia sdk to compile programs scaling on both CPU and GPU on the second half of this page:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/11/08/geforce_8800/page11.html
I wonder how useful this would be in avisynth filters acceleration

[MfA]

Out of the box it will be useless. You still have to write your code in a very specific way to benefit, even if they borrow some C syntax.

[mitsubishi]

Well it certainly looks interesting. The free registration for the programme is for prerelease tools, can't find any mention of its final availability. There's more info here: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html

I like this line:CUDA technology is equally supported on both the Linux and Microsoft® Windows® XP operating systems.
It does say thisStandard C programming language enabled on a GPUBut doesn't give specifics on how it works in practice, if it were as simple as writing code to hand off the threads to the GPU then it would be sweet, but if it requires a complete rewrite then it will get underused even if it is very powerful.