[Chicago] july

[Phil Robare]

This sounds quite interesting to me too.  Cosmin, have you played with
PyCUDA (http://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda) yet?  Its docs
promise great things but I haven't had any time to get it working yet.

On 7/1/08, Garrett Smith <g at rrett.us.com> wrote:
> +1
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cosmin Stejerean <cstejerean at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 2:20 PM
> To: The Chicago Python Users Group <chicago at python.org>
> Subject: [Chicago] july
>
> Last night I offered to give a presentation on GPU programming with
> CUDA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA) and some degree of Python at
> the July meeting. I'd like to make sure we don't have anything else
> planned and that people are interested so I can start putting together
> the presentation.
>
> Background:
>
> The latest generation of GPUs (video cards) from Nvidia can perform
> close to 1 teraFLOP. By comparison the latest Intel CPUs can achieve
> around 70 gigaFLOPS. Learning how to take advantage of the power the
> GPU can deliver speed-ups of up to 100x to certain applications in the
> fields of audio/video encoding, computer vision, computational
> finance, computational biology, physics simulations, etc.
>
> --
> Cosmin Stejerean
> http://blog.offbytwo.com
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