On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:05 PM, yavor...@mail.bg <gerund...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there, I kind of wanted to participate in this year's GSOC, and I
> looked through the suggestions and I couldn't help noticing there are
> no suggestions for optimizations for a particular architecture that
> could make SymPy faster. I am speaking particularly of GPU usage (e.g.
> CUDA) and parallel distributed memory architectures. As much as I've
> seen SymPy doesn't include any optimizations for that kind of usage
> and it would be nice (particularly now that there is PyCUDA & etc.).
> So I was thinking it might be a good suggestion to participate with
> this kind of idea... or is it against the idea of portability and
> therefore not acceptable for SymPy? The way I see it it could greatly
> increase performance in many algorithms if done properly... Thanks

If it can speedup some things, then sure (we'll include some cython
core, as an optional module too). But I have the same concerns as
Robert. Do you have some particular things in mind?

As far as I know, we don't use numeric matrices much.

Ondrej

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