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Sunday, October 5 2008

Cuda... episode 2

Le premier programme en cuda, c'est fait, maintenant il serait bon de ne pas avoir a se prendre la tete avec les allocations memoires, ou tout du moins les simplifier un peu...

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Thursday, September 18 2008

First steps in CUDA

I really want to throw myself in CUDA, so here I go. The first step will be to create a simple project, that runs under visual studio.

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Sunday, August 10 2008

OpenCL

Hi all, With almost 2 month late, i would like to point out the great news that OpenCL is :
Right now, the GP/GPU solutions are :

  • CUDA for NVidia hardware
  • CTM for AMD(ATI) hardware

which is sad for developpers, since we (and by we, I mostly mean I) don't want to have to use 2 APIs, and 2 languages, of different abstraction levels (CUDA is "high" level, where CTM is close to hardware (or to metal in that case \o/))
Considering NVidia goes well with CUDA, we could have bet on CTM death, but what's gonna happen is far better : OpenCL will born "soon", and will provide a unify way to use your GPU's power.
Gigaflop and mass parallel programming, here we are ! (as soon as specification and compiler will be out, which lets us a few years at least)

Let's wish good luck to the Khronos group which have to write the standards !