higher precision arithmetic for NVIDIA GPUs

[Vincent Lefevre]

Hi,

On 2007-08-06 15:44:45 +0200, Stefan Lang wrote:
> Now my questions:
> 1. Can libgmp easliy be adapted completely or some part (I only need
> some BLAS like routines)  for these cards?

Will GMP ever run on GPUs? As GPUs are very particular, I fear that
this needs more or less a full rewrite (to be efficient).

> 2. Does anyone know an efficient way to implement an arithmetic with higher 
>     precision (using the float type already there) by myself?

You can contact David Defour, who works on GPUs and FP arithmetic:

  http://gala.univ-perp.fr/~ddefour/

-- 
Vincent Lefèvre <vincent at vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/>
100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/>
Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)