This may be of interest, LLVM support in Mesa, and i believe there is work doing on with LLVM and python in the pypy camp.
http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2007/05/mesa-and-llvm.html I just stumbled on this page, while this conversation was happening :) Dave On 6/2/07, Bob Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Turner wrote: > > > Hi Martin, > > > > > I was wondering if anyone has thought about accelerating NumPy with a > > > GPU. For example nVidia's CUDA SDK provides a feasible way to offload > > > vector math onto the very fast SIMD processors available on the GPU. > > > Currently GPUs primarily support single precision floats and are not > > > IEEE compliant, but still could be useful for some applications. > > > > I wasn't actually there, but I noticed that last year's SciPy > > conference page includes a talk entitled "GpuPy: Using GPUs to > > Accelerate NumPy", by Benjamin Eitzen (I think I also found his Web > > page via Google): > > > > http://www.scipy.org/SciPy2006/Schedule > > > > I also wondered whether Benjamin or anyone else who is interested had > > come across the Open Graphics Project (hadn't got around to asking)? > > Thanks for your interest. Ben and I (mostly Ben, it's his MS thesis) > are working on "gpupy" and expect to have a version ready for testing > by people other than ourselves some time this summer. > > (Very) preliminary results are promising. > > - Bob Lewis > School of EECS > Washington State University > > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
