Hi Gregory, can you please send PyCUDA-related questions to the mailing list in the future?
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:46:55 +0000, Gregory Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > How exactly does PyCuda work with Cuda? Is it an overlay on top of > the Cuda development tools or does it generate native object code for > the GPU somehow? Uses nvcc to generate .cubin GPU object code. > Python natively supports multi precision bignums, would PyCuda then be > able to generate GPU code that is multi precision, and more > importantly, would it already be optimized to take advantage of Fermi > 32-bit integer multipliers? I just picked up a GTS 350 last week > which is Fermi based and plan on getting it installed with PyCuda > today or tomorrow hopefully. PyCUDA doesn't support GPU bignums. This is nontrivial because of a bignum's inherent variable size. Arbitrary-fixed-size integers should be easy to do though. Thanks, Andreas
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