It will look similar to creating two numpy arrays and multiplying them 
elementwise, except it will perform the multiplications in parallel on the 
gpu.

On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 10:41:33 AM UTC-7, Jesse Livezey wrote:
>
> If you can create a theano vector that has all of the i's and a second 
> theano vector that has all of the j's, then you can just do i*j and will 
> will perform all of the multiplications in parallel.
>
> On Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 11:48:06 PM UTC-7, [email protected] 
> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to compute the result of i*j for a number of i's and j's, 
>> and I would like to do so concurrently. If I use the scan function over my 
>> sequence of i's and j's, I will get my desired result, but it will not 
>> perform the operations concurrently. If I have 100 cores in my single GPU, 
>> I would like there to be 100 asynchronous computations (technically more 
>> since each core has multiple threads) of the multiplication and final 
>> assignment to one vector that will be returned. This is similar to how 
>> multiprocessing works in base python with CPU cores. The Theano tutorial 
>> claims that it uses GPU asynchronous capabilities, but I am not sure of 
>> that as I have ran scan functions, and they seems to go as fast or slower 
>> than the CPU.
>>
>> Should I not use scan? Can this even be done in Theano? Do I have to use 
>> PyCUDA?
>>
>

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