Re: GPU-based Compute Cloud

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Timur Yusupov <y...@bwl.uni-kiel.de> wrote:

Hi All,

I was following your discussion on GPU and PS3 based computing.
The key issue is easy transferability of a code. Do you have in mind SPU and
GPU implementation of BLAS routines? How far are we in implementing BLAS on
SPU and GPU (double precision)?

Thank you,
Timur

Timur,

We have local company called RapidMind, who was able to run BLAS routine SGEMM on GPU

quote:

While using the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform, we can compare the performance of BLAS dense linear algebra operations, the FFT, and European option pricing on the GPU against highly tuned CPU implementations on the fastest available CPUs.

source:

http://www.rapidmind.net/case-gpu.php

You can download RapidMind Developer Edition for free at their site.

As for transferability, I guess, initially it (GPGPU Cloud) should serve only specific class of applications, suitable/tailored to underlying HW/SW.

cheers,

Khaz Sapenov

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