[Numpy-discussion] GPU implementation?

[Martin Ünsal]

I was wondering if anyone has thought about accelerating NumPy with a
GPU. For example nVidia's CUDA SDK provides a feasible way to offload
vector math onto the very fast SIMD processors available on the GPU.
Currently GPUs primarily support single precision floats and are not
IEEE compliant, but still could be useful for some applications.

If there turns out to be a significant speedup over using the CPU, this
could be a very accessible way to do scientific and numerical
computation using GPUs, much easier than coding directly to the GPU APIs.

Martin