On 2 February 2012 at 07:45, Peter Aberline wrote: | My first posting to the group!
Cool :) | >>Does anybody know where I might find an example of using CUDA with Rcpp? | | >>I've looked around the internet a bit (and on this list), but have yet to | find too much. I saw some discussion on optimizing a 2d convolution, but only | references to the possibility of using CUDA. I've also been using Dirk's | OpenMP example in Rcpp/examples. | | | | The Armadillo library allows you to slot in BLAS implementations. I've been | wondering whether it would be possible to use NVIDIA's CuBLAS library, which is | a BLAS implementation using CUDA. Would it then be possible to use | RcppArmadillo to move data in and out of R? Yes it would, but it would also be a lot of work. Recall that Conrad put a few man years into Armadillo, and Rcpp et al weren't build overnight either. Mark, and others, have put some thought into this but it is ongoing... | I?ve also developed some examples of using RInside/Rcpp with ZeroMQ, which | allows parallel distributed computation, which may interest you. I've promised | these to Dirk. (Dirk I'll email you the code off list today). Lots of interest in ZeroMQ. Whit (CC'ed) just submitted something for our upcoming fourth R/Finance conference about ZeroMQ and AWS. Bryan Lewis (also CC'ed) also has some code for R and ZeroMQ. Dirk | | | | cheers, | | Peter. | | | | | | From: [email protected] | [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris DuBois | Sent: 01 February 2012 15:16 | To: [email protected] | Subject: [Rcpp-devel] Rcpp and CUDA | | | | Hi all, | | | | | | I'm trying to gauge how hard this would be before I spend too much time down | this route. My objects that need to be shared may be too large for this | approach. | | | | Any advice greatly appreciated. | | Chris | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | This message and any attachments contain information that may be RMS Inc. | confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient (or | authorized to receive for the intended recipient), and have received this | message in error, any use, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. | If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender | immediately by replying to the e-mail and permanently deleting the message from | your computer and/or storage system. | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | _______________________________________________ | Rcpp-devel mailing list | [email protected] | https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
