From: Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso <grabber@...>
Date: 2008-03-23T23:30:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on GPU

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You can try re-write PyGPU in Ruby. But it does not make sense to me.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:25 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
>



-- 
Regards,

Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso
cel.: (11) 8187-8662
blog: rubz.org
engineer student at maua.br

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You can try re-write PyGPU in Ruby. But it does not make sense to me.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Jordi Polo &lt;<a href="mailto:mumismo@gmail.com">mumismo@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Maybe this mail is more ruby-talk material...<br><br>Someone knows of any &quot;backend&quot; of Ruby or subset of ruby that uses GPU to run the code?<br><br>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.<br>

Some related work:<br><a href="http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Calle_Lejdfors/pygpu/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Calle_Lejdfors/pygpu/</a><br><br>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?<br clear="all">
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<br>-- <br>Jordi Polo Carres<br>NLP laboratory - NAIST<br><a href="http://www.bahasara.org" target="_blank">http://www.bahasara.org</a><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Regards, <br><br>Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso<br>cel.: (11) 8187-8662 <br>blog: <a href="http://rubz.org">rubz.org</a> <br>engineer student at <a href="http://maua.br">maua.br</a><br>


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