Dear fellow codejammers, excuse the slightly OT question, but I have been wondering about GPU and the possible improvements it could have in these contests (or whether there would be an improvement or not). These questions are mostly because I do not understand things like CUDA or how the GPU architecture differs from CPU too well yet. It's just a theoretical speculation, so lest ignore the discussion about whether CUDA would be allowed or not in codejam, and instead about how useful it could be.
First, I think it is at least good for things like linear algebra and linear programming maybe? Those problems were not uncommon last year. So maybe solving the problems on your GPU could give you a strong speed advantage on this sort of problems? What other common problems do you think could get improvements from it? Also, does anyone know if something like running all N cases of an usual problem simultaneously would take a good advantage from GPU's better parallelism? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
