Parallelization of Python on GPU?

[John Ladasky]

On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 7:03:23 PM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> I would like to point out that GPUs 
> typically don't support IEE-754 maths, which means that while they are 
> likely significantly faster, they're also likely significantly less 
> accurate.

Historically, that has been true.  According to this document...

https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/cuda/files/NVIDIA-CUDA-Floating-Point.pdf

...NVidia's GPU cards which implement "compute capability" versions 2.0 and higher are IEEE-754 compliant, both for single- and double-precision floating point operations.

The current "compute capability" version is 5.2, so there are several generations of GPU hardware out there by now which should give satisfactory floating-point results.