Hello, Information about RapidMind and PeakStream(Google) software may be helpful.
Here are the links: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/4837 http://www.rapidmind.com/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/05/google_buys_peakstream/ Regards, Yuri --- Derek Zahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moshe Looks writes:> This is not quite correct; it really depends > on the complexity of the > programs one is evolving and the > structure of the fitness function. For > simple cases, it can > really rock; see> > http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/ > > That's interesting work, thanks for the link! It's not immediately > obvious, but the particular example there is a population of > programs that estimate pi with up to 8 leaves from an "alphabet" of > six tokens (2 constants and 4 basic arithmetic operations). > > The strategy used for parallelization is to run all programs > currently waiting on a '+' operation, then run all programs doing a > '-' operation and so on. If there are N operations (4 in this > case), the population runs at 1/N speed (since the SIMD nature of > the thing makes the others wait). So you're right, for simple > cases like this one it only wastes 75% of the available processing > power. It doesn't seem like it will scale very well though. Even > on this simple task I bet a quad-core cpu is competitive with the > GPU hardware. > > It does point out though that some things that are not intuitively > data parallel can be executed effectively on a GPU. > > Do you personally think MOSES will run well on a GPU? > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
