Run C# code on GPU

1) No – not for the general case of C# – obviously anything can be created for some subset of the language

2) Yes – HLSL using Direct X or Open GL

3) Not generally possible – CPU and GPU coding are fundamentally different

Basically you can’t think of CPU and GPU coding as being comparable. A GPU is a highly specialised parallel processing tool – for lots of parallel simple calculations.

Trying to write a general progam in a GPU with lots of branches etc just won’t be efficient – maybe not even possible.

Their memory access architectures are totally different.

You should write for the CPU but farm out appropriate parallel computations to the GPU.

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