[Numpy-discussion] ANN: PyCuda

2008-06-22 Thread Andreas Klöckner
Hi all, I am happy to announce the availability of PyCuda [1,8], which is a value-added Python wrapper around Nvidia's CUDA [2] GPU Computation framework. In the presence of other wrapping modules [3,4], why would you want to use PyCuda? * It's designed to work and interact with numpy. *

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ANN: PyCuda

2008-06-22 Thread Kevin Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Andreas Klöckner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PyCuda is based on the driver API. CUBLAS uses the high-level API. Once *can* violate this rule without crashing immediately. But sketchy stuff does happen. Instead, for BLAS-1 operations, PyCuda comes with a class

Re: [Numpy-discussion] ANN: PyCuda

2008-06-22 Thread Andreas Klöckner
On Sonntag 22 Juni 2008, Kevin Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the clarification. That makes perfect sense. Do you have any feelings on the relative performance of GPUArray versus CUBLAS? Same. If you check out the past version of PyCuda that still has CUBLAS, there are files