Re: programming for CUDA processing

Posted by Johan Henriksson-2 on Mar 11, 2010; 10:15am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Re-programming-for-CUDA-processing-tp3689021p3689023.html

that's the one we have switched to now (we had our own bindings before).
unfortunately it doesn't work on linux for us (crashes) but I don't
think it will be too hard to fix if you understand the low-level stuff.

/Johan


On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:29 +0100, Daniel James White wrote:

> There are now java bindings for openCL (which is somewhat like CUDA,  
> see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL )
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> http://code.google.com/p/javacl/
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> works on OSX 10.6 at least.
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> Dan
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> > Date:    Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:04:10 +0100
> > From:    Johan Henriksson <[hidden email]>
> > Subject: Re: programming for CUDA processing
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> > Damon Poburko wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >>   This is a really broad question. I am wondering if people are
> >> programming Image J plugins to farm out work to CUDA enabled NVIDIA
> >> graphics cards. I'm just starting to get a feel of what CUDA is and
> >> can do, so I'm wondering if anyone has any positive or negative
> >> experiences with ImageJ and CUDA processing?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Damon
> > we've been playing with opencl. despite that it is such a close
> > relative, it is very immature, the compiler has bugs, the profiler
> > crashes and performance is not always that great. never assume that  
> > GPU
> > code is faster than CPU code; benchmark carefully.
> >
> > /Johan
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