Would OpenCL be a better direction than pure GPU?

I've asked on the OpenCV forum how they have approached this.  There are a
number of options.


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would love to discuss how we would go about making NuPIC parallel. We
> could really use the boost in bandwidth, especially as we approach the
> future. If we could easily refactor the C++ implementation to use the
> graphics card, that could enable applying the CLA to problems that require
> low latency computation.
> On Apr 27, 2014 8:35 PM, "Daniel Bell" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> HI Chetan,
>>
>> I can certainly do that in the next couple of months. If we could find an
>> answer to this, then i can make some progress towards this in a massively
>> parallel and async way. ;)
>>
>> As far as i am aware, OpenCV is completely thread safe. Maybe we could
>> take some inspiration from there.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Chetan Surpur <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel,
>>>
>>> Great question! I'm not entirely sure, but I just wanted to say that it
>>> would be great if someone experimented with parallelizing NuPIC :)
>>>
>>> - Chetan
>>>
>>> On April 27, 2014 at 8:17:41 PM, Daniel Bell (
>>> [email protected]) wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am interested in the progress of this project. From the activity on
>>> the mailing lists, i can see that the next few months will be very
>>> interesting as more material becomes available. I am yet to download and
>>> install due to time restrictions on my current workload.
>>>
>>> My intention is to use this project within my application once it is in
>>> a more stable state.  When designing my application i am attempting to use
>>> a large amount multi-threading and so i want to know what considerations i
>>> will need to think about.
>>>
>>> How thread safe are the C++ bindings? What aspects would require locking
>>> for async tasks.
>>>
>>> My application will lean toward detection and classification problems
>>> for 2D matrices.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Daniel
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