GPGPU support

[Vincent Diepeveen]

>>   Greetings. Are there currently any active projects to port GMP to
>> GPGPU
>>   hardware libraries, such as CUDA or CTM?
>>
>> Not any that I am aware of.
>>
>> (It is very difficult to make good use of SIMD processors in GMP, for
>> reasons that have been discussed here in the past.)
>
> I have an idea to approach SIMD differently for this kind of parallel
> processing (using algorithms which are not inherently geared toward a
> native port to SIMD).  Is there someone on this list who would be
> willing to discuss this possibility with me?


Of course i'm very interested in all this.

>
> I tried to post this question only to the developers on the developers
> list, but the list admin denied my post.

This is a better list to ask anyway.

Parallellization using vector cores (not so much SIMD) is very complicated.

The dominant hardwqare is AMD currently. It delivers 4.6+ or more tflop
(single precision) versus nvidia 1+ Tflop.

Most projects are CUDA, for unknown reason to me.



> Thanks,
> Rick C. Hodgin
>
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