Some of the techniques are probably very interesting, but it is hard to be impressed by a six times speedup if the original library was quite slow, which I bet it was.
Thanks for pointing out the article. It will be interesting to follow this development. Bill. On Thursday, 15 March 2012, Dann Corbit <dcor...@connx.com> wrote: > Very interesting article on multi-precision integer arithmetic ported to GPU: > http://www.worldscinet.com/ppl/21/2103/free-access/S0129626411000266.pdf > > Not sure about the license, because it appears to be based on ARPREC and QD, which requires a fee for commercial use: > http://crd-legacy.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/mpdist/ > > But I think at least it would be a good read because they talk about the obstacles and techniques that were necessary to get good performance. > They saw up to 6x speedup for GTX 480 card verses core i7 870 general purpose CPU. Coincidentally, that is my exact hardware setup. > > -- > 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 mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en. > > -- 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 mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
