Joonas,

 Really really cool and the name is perfect, well done :)

Ian


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Joonas Haapala <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I did some work six months ago in porting the whitepaper to OpenCL. The
> WIP code is available here: https://github.com/Jontte/CortiCL
>
> CLA doesn't port to GPU as well as deep neural networks due to some parts
> of the algorithm needing memory access to the neighbouring columns
> (neighbourhood inhibition in SP) and the need to maintain variable sized
> memory buffers (list of proposed changes to a segment), but it all can be
> worked around.
>
> CPU<->GPU memory bandwidth shouldn't be a problem, since the state of the
> whole network doesn't have to be accessible from the CPU side during
> operation unless one wants debug diagnostics. In my application I only move
> the network input/output bit patterns across the boundary each step:
> https://github.com/Jontte/CortiCL/blob/master/src/cltemporal.cpp#L83
>
> Joonas Haapala
>
>
>
>
> 2014-05-05 8:28 GMT+03:00 Sergey Bryukov <[email protected]>:
>
>>  Hi, is there any progress for CLA on GPU?
>>
>> There is a mention of GPU data base. Dont know if it would be useful for
>> CLA.
>>
>> "Known as MapD <http://geops.csail.mit.edu/docs/mapd_overview.pdf>, or
>> massively parallel database, the new technology achieves big speed gains by
>> storing the data in the onboard memory of graphics processing units (GPUs)
>> instead of in central processing units (CPUs), as is conventional."
>>
>>
>> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520021/graphics-chips-help-process-big-data-sets-in-milliseconds/
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