Yes, you're right (and Bryan too) I don't need it if they are inter-operable.
Can anyone point me to an example that uses PyCUDA to do this? Thanks, Andrew On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 05:45:28PM -0400, Alex Nitz wrote: > This is a neat feature, but do you really need to call from a kernel > directly? If all you want to do is call CUBLAS functions on pycuda vector > types, then you can use scikits.cuda. The driver and runtime api > are inter-operable on a program level, just not between kernels, yet. > > http://www.scribd.com/doc/88255296/228/G-4-Interoperability-between-Runtime-and-Driver-APIs > > http://lebedov.github.com/scikits.cuda/ > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Stanley Seibert > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I too am looking forward to trying this out, but it is important to note > > that this feature is limited to compute capability 3.5 devices, none of > > which have been released yet... > > > > On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:36 PM, andrew cooke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > At http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda/cublas it says: > > > > > > *New in CUDA 5.0* Device API that can be called from CUDA kernels > > > > > > Which I take to mean that it is now possibel to use CUBLAS while using > > the > > > Driver API. > > > > > > Meanwhile :o) at > > > > > http://wiki.tiker.net/PyCuda/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#Are_the_CUBLAS_APIs_available_via_PyCUDA.3F > > > it says, while explaining why PyCUDA doesn't dupport CUBLAS: > > > > > > PyCUDA is based on the driver API. CUBLAS uses the high-level API. > > > > > > So... have you noticed this? Have you found any more information (I > > can't > > > find anything on CUBLAS 5 although I've got CUDA 5 installed and > > running)? Do > > > you have any plans? > > > > > > I am not sure PyCUDA will need to do anything - it looks like I can > > simply > > > call CUBLAS from a kernel - although I guess you could auto-generate > > simple > > > kernels that wrapper each call. > > > > > > Most of all I'd like to find more docs. Anyone? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Andrew > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PyCUDA mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.tiker.net/listinfo/pycuda > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PyCUDA mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.tiker.net/listinfo/pycuda > > _______________________________________________ PyCUDA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.tiker.net/listinfo/pycuda
