From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2008-03-11T22:07:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on GPU

I think you're misunderstanding what PyGPU does. PyGPU is simply a
Python library that generates Cg code underneath, and *that* gets
compiled and run on the GPU. It doesn't run Python code on the GPU, as
that's not possible. A Ruby version of this library would not be
difficult to do.

Jason

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Jordi Polo <mumismo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe this mail is more ruby-talk material...
>
> Someone knows of any "backend" of Ruby or subset of ruby that uses GPU to
> run the code?
>
> GPUs dont have the control unit needed for general Ruby usage but they have
> a whole bunch of useful instructions and of course a huge amount or ALU to
> become a very good backend for some Ruby operations.
>  Some related work:
> http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Calle_Lejdfors/pygpu/
>
> If I am interested in developing something like that, the only option would
> be write a C library and make a ruby wrap for it?
>
> --
> Jordi Polo Carres
> NLP laboratory - NAIST
> http://www.bahasara.org
>