On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Dean Wampler <deanwamp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've thought about this idea, although I haven't tried it, but I think the
> right approach is to pick your granularity boundary and use Spark + JVM for
> large-scale parts of the algorithm, then use the gpgus API for number
> crunching large chunks at a time. No need to run the JVM and Spark on the
> GPU, which would make no sense anyway.
>
>
I find that would be crazy to be able to run the JVM on a GPU even if it's
a bit non-sense XD
Anyway, you're right, the approach by delegating just some parts of the
code to the GPU is interesting but it also means you have to pre-install
this code on all cluster nodes...


> Here's another approach:
> http://www.cakesolutions.net/teamblogs/2013/02/13/akka-and-cuda/
>
> dean
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Saurabh Jha 
> <saurabh.jha.2...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> There is a scala implementation for gpgus (nvidia cuda to be precise).
>> but you also need to port mesos for gpu's. I am not sure about mesos. Also,
>> the current scala gpu version is not stable to be used commercially.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Thanks
>> saurabh.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Saurabh Jha*
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>>
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Pascal Voitot Dev <
>> pascal.voitot....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is a bit crazy :)
>>> I suppose you would have to run Java code on the GPU!
>>> I heard there are some funny projects to do that...
>>>
>>> Pascal
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Jaonary Rabarisoa <jaon...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm just wondering if hybrid GPU/CPU computation is something that is
>>>> feasible with spark ? And what should be the best way to do it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Jaonary
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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