Re: programming for CUDA processing

Posted by Johan Henriksson-2 on Mar 10, 2010; 8:04pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Re-programming-for-CUDA-processing-tp3689021p3689025.html

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