Matlab Integrates GPU Support For UberMath Computation 89
An anonymous reader writes "Matlab now comes with GPU native support in the 2010b version. This means loads of Matlab commands can be parallelized onto the GPU without having to re-code things in C++ or Fortran using CUDA. Pretty sweet for the HPC community."
Nice (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:How long until R supports this? (Score:2, Interesting)
http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputing.html
See "Parallel computing: GPUs"
Re:Old news (Score:4, Interesting)
I think they meant 2011b which is not out yet (it's in beta). GPUmat as well as nVIDIA had toolboxes for MATLAB for a while now (although the CUDA toolboxes require manual code edits and compiling to get it to work) but there is only limited function support (eg. FFT on large arrays works wonders on CUDA) and even those had limited support (only single floating point precision for example). There is also the commercial Accelereyes with Jacket.
MAGMA (Score:4, Interesting)
For those interested in an open-source alternative, there's MAGMA [utk.edu], which provides a bunch of linear algebra routines implemented in CUDA. I haven't tried it myself yet, but it looks promising.