I’m very excited to see that Ananth, the author of the Brahma LINQ-to-GPU provider, now has it running on Mono using OpenGL.
If anyone’s not heard of GPGPU, it’s the technique of taking a graphic processor unit and using it to run general-purpose computation. Discrete GPUs are incredibly powerful, so if code is ported effectively, it sees a massive speedup. However, the graphics-centric APIs and ridiculously parallelised architecture make this non-trivial. This is where Brahma comes in. It takes your C# 3 LINQ expression trees and automagically runs them on your GPU.
I can’t wait to see it running on Linux!