Received from Francesc Alted on Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 05:18:48AM EDT: (snip)
> The point here is that matrix-matrix multiplications (or, in general, > functions with a large operation/element ratio) are a *tiny* part of all the > possible operations between arrays that NumPy supports. This is why Sturla > is > saying that it is not a good idea to include support of GPUs in all parts of > NumPy. A much better strategy is to give NumPy the possibility to link with > external packages (à la BLAS, LAPACK, Atlas, MKL) that can leverage the .. and CULA: http://www.culatools.com/ > powerful GPUs for specific problems (e.g. matrix-matrix multiplications). L.G. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
