PyCUDA (wrapper for the CUDA platform) is probably your best bet: http://documen.tician.de/pycuda/index
Whether a GPU is actually going to be faster for whatever you're doing is a separate question. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Kevin LaTona <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Nat and Chris for your suggestions > > I looked at pyGpu but it looked to me like it has not had much dev work > since 2007 or so. > > With GPU cards getting so cheap, I was looking into see at what point it > makes sense to off load task to them vs leaving it on the CPU. > > And or if GPU's are still so specialized that mere mortals still can't use > them yet. > > -Kevin > > > > > > On May 14, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Kevin LaTona <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> By chance any one on the list using GPU cards with Python for image >>> processing task? >>> >> >> a tiny bit... but mostly just drawing with OpenGL. >> >> In particular does anyone know if PIL can make use of GPU cards? >>> >> >> nope. >> >> If not, know of any other Python based image processing code that does >>> make >>> use of GPU cards. >>> >> >> no, but there are a handful of projects that make it pretty easy to >> write code for the GPU (OpenCL), and this one looks like it's doing >> some image processing: >> >> http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/**Personal/Calle_Lejdfors/pygpu/<http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/Personal/Calle_Lejdfors/pygpu/> >> >> What functionality do you have in mind? >> >> -Chris >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Christopher Barker, Ph.D. >> Oceanographer >> >> Emergency Response Division >> NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice >> 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax >> Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception >> >> [email protected] >> >> >
