KGPU : any scope?

[arrao@cdac.in (Raghavendra)]

Hello all,

I was going through the concept of KGPU, which is a GPU computing 
framework for the Linux Kernel. I've read the white paper on it(can be 
found at http://www.cs.utah.edu/~wbsun/kgpu.pdf) and I am very much 
interested in this project, but what could be the scope of 
this(although, the paper mentions a few application areas like crypto, 
networking, fs, etc)? Does the kernel really require GPU's assistance? 
What is the scope of building kernel frameworks around it?

Also the current framework is build using CUDA. I want to re-implement 
the same using OpenCL as it is supported by most of the GPUs. As per my 
perspective, I see a huge learning opportunity here. But, practically 
how fas is it useful?

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks

Raghavendra.

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