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Rusty Lemur
Rusty Lemur

Reputation: 1875

Program to compress files using GPUs

Are there any compression programs (e.g. gzip, 7zip, xz) that can use GPUs to accelerate compression? I've been playing with a 5.7 GB qcow2 image of an OpenStack instance, and with xz using extra options I could get the file compressed to only 1.6 GB, but it took almost 2 hours to get that, compared to ~10 minutes when the compressed file size was 4.5 GB. It got me to wondering if any programs use GPUs to speed it up. I saw some discussion around NVIDIA's CUDA library (Compression library using Nvidia's CUDA). Has anything been developed since then?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2285

Answers (1)

Roberto Novakosky
Roberto Novakosky

Reputation: 371

Well, there is new WinZip, uses GPU by OpenCL. You need to test to see if is good to you.

Upvotes: 1

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