People have implemented partial differential equation solvers on GPUs. If you google gpu pde you will get an idea what's been done.
Best regards, Melissa ----- Dr. Melissa Rice, PhD Full Moon Technical Solutions, LLC 14202 60th Ave, NW Stanwood, WA 98292-4808 email: mailto:[email protected] phone: 360-654-0709 cell: 425-923-7713 Monday, May 14, 2012, 4:38:55 PM, Kevin LaTona <[email protected]> wrote: KL> Thanks Nat and Chris for your suggestions KL> I looked at pyGpu but it looked to me like it has not had much dev KL> work since 2007 or so. KL> With GPU cards getting so cheap, I was looking into see at what point KL> it makes sense to off load task to them vs leaving it on the CPU. KL> And or if GPU's are still so specialized that mere mortals still can't KL> use them yet. KL> -Kevin KL> 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/ >> 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]
