This looks very worthwhile! Perhaps, as a first "proof of concept," just request access to the cudacluster that nvidia is evidently running. Then, if it looks like some high-performance multi-precision arithmetic could actually be done using the cuda standard, submit a larger request.
I'll go read up on CUDA. Jason Worth Martin Asst. Professor of Mathematics http://www.math.jmu.edu/~martin On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Bill Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not necessarily. The C code runs on the front end processors, which > are usually Intel Xeons or something like that. Then one shoves > specialised routines into the NVIDIA cores. I've no idea whether it is > there or not. But one would think that given that these things came > from graphics, XORing should be there. The problem is, even if it is > there, it isn't part of any FP standard, so it is not guaranteed to be > supported on other such devices. > > Anyhow, I'll look up the CUDA "standard" and see. > > Bill. > > 2008/11/23 mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> >> On Nov 23, 12:50 pm, "Bill Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I'm personally interested in the M4RI type stuff. I think malb could >>> be as well, but the problem is XOR is not part of the IEEE floating >>> point standard, and thus it is useless as is for M4RI. That's not to >>> say there isn't another way.... >> >> Well, CUDA is also about C code, so I would be very surprised if XOR >> wasn't there (unless I totally misunderstood your point here :). "Bit >> flipping" should be something that a GPU is very good at, but at this >> point this is mostly my expectations and not backed up by >> investigation about feasibility yet. >> >>> Bill. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
