Thursday 13 December 2007

CUDA

Here are some links to an interesting new technology, which might be very useful for any "embarassingly parallel" (see earlier blog-post for definition of that) factorization (or other) algorithms. It's basically a method of using all the processing power inherent in modern GPUs for CPU-type calculations, and something I for one will be keeping an eye on...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html#downloads
http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece498/al1/
http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece498/al1/Syllabus.html
It's even coming to Mac! :)
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=47884

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