Florian! Thanks for sharing your Master thesis. It was informative reading! You mention that you modified FFC too. Will this branch also be published?
Johan On Friday January 21 2011 02:34:43 Florian Rathgeber wrote: > There is no master plan I know of. For my MSc project with Johan Jansson > at KTH last year I implemented GPU assembly and solve using DOLFIN. > There are 2 backends: a native CUDA one and one using the cusp library > from NVIDIA. I'm currently trying to get my code in shape and working > with the current dolfin-dev to publish in a branch on launchpad > (lp:~florian-rathgeber/dolfin/gpu-backend). The code currently in there > is broken, I had pushed it to show the CMake problems I was seeing. > Hopefully I can push something working soon. > > If you want to read up on the background my MSc thesis is probably a > good start: > http://www.nada.kth.se/utbildning/grukth/exjobb/rapportlistor/2010/rapporte > r10/rathgeber_florian_10106.pdf > > I don't know how much time I will have to maintain this, but I thought > it would be useful to have something out for people to play with and > show there is work in this direction in the FEniCS community. > > Florian > > On 20/01/11 22:47, Anders Logg wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:03:51PM +0100, Marie E. Rognes wrote: > >> On 01/20/2011 10:10 PM, Johan Hake wrote: > >> Florian! > >> > >> Out of curiosity, are you planing to implement GPU assembly too? To > >> me it looked like your code "only" exploited solve on the GPU. > >> > >> I guess GPU assemble is even more parallelizable than the solving > >> process. At least if you settle with gathering the elemement > >> matrices in parallel and then fanning them out in some sort of > >> serial operation. In this way you miss the possibility to solve on > >> the GPU, which I guess you are exploiting. > >> > >> I'm real interested too in hearing more about your plans! > >> > >> There has been quite a bit of mentions with regard to "doing stuff on > >> GPUs" from different parts of the FEniCS community over the last year > >> or so. Is there a master plan out there somewhere? > > > > I don't think there's a master plan (yet), but many are interested and > > the group at Imperial have been working on it for some time. It would > > be interesting to hear more about the progress. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dolfin > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dolfin > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dolfin Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dolfin More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
