[Numpy-discussion] GPU implementation?

[James Turner]

Hi Martin,

 > I was wondering if anyone has thought about accelerating NumPy with a
 > GPU. For example nVidia's CUDA SDK provides a feasible way to offload
 > vector math onto the very fast SIMD processors available on the GPU.
 > Currently GPUs primarily support single precision floats and are not
 > IEEE compliant, but still could be useful for some applications.

I wasn't actually there, but I noticed that last year's SciPy
conference page includes a talk entitled "GpuPy: Using GPUs to
Accelerate NumPy", by Benjamin Eitzen (I think I also found his Web
page via Google):

   http://www.scipy.org/SciPy2006/Schedule

I also wondered whether Benjamin or anyone else who is interested had
come across the Open Graphics Project (hadn't got around to asking)?

   http://wiki.duskglow.com/tiki-index.php?page=open-graphics

This would be quite a specialized combination, but I'm sure it could
be useful to some people with high performance requirements or maybe
building some kind of special appliances.

Cheers,

James.