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Evan Sparks commented on SPARK-5705: ------------------------------------ This JIRA is a continuation of this thread: http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Using-CUDA-within-Spark-boosting-linear-algebra-td10481.html To summarise - high-speed linear algebra operations including, but not limited to, matrix multiplies and solves have the potential to make certain machine learning operations faster on spark. However, we've got to be careful to balance the overheads of copying data/calling out to the GPU with other factors in the design of the system. Additionally - getting these libraries compiled, linked, built, and configured on a target system is unfortunately not trivial. We should make sure we have a standard process for doing this (perhaps starting with this codebase: http://github.com/shivaram/matrix-bench). Maybe we should start with some applications where we think GPU acceleration could help? Neural nets is one, LDA is another - others? > Explore GPU-accelerated Linear Algebra Libraries > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: SPARK-5705 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5705 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Bug > Components: MLlib > Reporter: Evan Sparks > Priority: Minor > -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org