[Baypiggies] PyCuda - using video card hardware for parallel computation

[Stephen Lacy]

Just saw this blog post come by and thought it was relevant to the
discussion here:

http://ianozsvald.com/2010/07/14/22937-faster-python-math-using-pycuda/

Steve

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Andy Wiggin <andywiggin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Seth Friedman <sfseth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is really neat.   I've got a CUDA-capable nvidia card I'm thinking I
> > want to write a python program to answer the following question:
> what/where
> > is the effect of the GIL when programming 240/480/720 1.3ghz cores?   It
> > seems like this question must have been conquered to some degree, at
> > least.   Is this simply a non issue because there isn't any python
> > "interpreting" happening in parallel, that it's translated in serial
> > (assuming single-threaded/single-process python doing the farming to the
> > GPUs) ..?
> >
> > seth
> >
>
> Seth,
> it doesn't look to me like any python code is actually executing on
> the GPU. The "kernels" of code running on the GPU appear to still be
> written in C (notice the C-format string literals when creating
> SourceModule objects in the examples; that's what runs on the GPU). So
> unfortunately I don't think you can do the experiment you're
> describing.
> Regards,
> Andy
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