Re: [R] General-purpose GPU computing in statistics (using R)

2010-06-05 Thread Ravi Varadhan
- Original Message - From: Prof Brian Ripley Date: Friday, June 4, 2010 6:26 am Subject: Re: [R] General-purpose GPU computing in statistics (using R) To: Ravi Varadhan Cc: R-help@r-project.org > On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Ravi Varadhan wrote: > > >Hi All, > > > >I have be

Re: [R] General-purpose GPU computing in statistics (using R)

2010-06-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Ravi Varadhan wrote: Hi All, I have been reading about general purpose GPU (graphical processing units) computing for computational statistics. I know very little about this, but I read that GPUs currently cannot handle double-precision floating points Not so for a while,

Re: [R] General-purpose GPU computing in statistics (using R)

2010-06-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Ravi, On 3 June 2010 at 09:43, Ravi Varadhan wrote: | I have been reading about general purpose GPU (graphical processing units) | computing for computational statistics. I know very little about this, but | I read that GPUs currently cannot handle double-precision floating points | and also tha

Re: [R] General-purpose GPU computing in statistics (using R)

2010-06-03 Thread Allan Engelhardt
You may be interested in the "gputools" package and associated web site which discusses some of your questions in the second paragraph. Hope this helps a little. Allan On 03/06/10 14:43, Ravi Varadhan wrote: Hi All, I have been reading about general purpose GPU (graphical processing units)

[R] General-purpose GPU computing in statistics (using R)

2010-06-03 Thread Ravi Varadhan
Hi All, I have been reading about general purpose GPU (graphical processing units) computing for computational statistics. I know very little about this, but I read that GPUs currently cannot handle double-precision floating points and also that they are not necessarily IEEE compliant. Howeve