Hello,
IMHO, it is better to call the BLAS or similiar libarary rather than programing
you own functions. And CUDA treats the GPU as a cluster, so .CU is not working
as our normal codes. If you have got to many matrix or vector computation, it
is better to use Brook+/CAL, which can show great power of AMD gpu.
Regards,
Li, Bo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikhail Kuzminsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vincent Diepeveen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Beowulf" <beowulf@beowulf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] gpgpu
> In message from Vincent Diepeveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Tue, 26 Aug 2008
> 00:30:30 +0200):
>>Hi Mikhail,
>>
>>I'd say they're ok for black box 32 bits calculations that can do with
>>a GB or 2 RAM,
>>other than that they're just luxurious electric heating.
>
> I also want to have simple blackbox, but 64-bit (Tesla C1060 or
> Firestream 9170 or 9250). Unfortunately the life isn't restricted to
> BLAS/LAPACK/FFT :-)
>
> So I'll need to program something other. People say that the best
> choice is CUDA for Nvidia. When I look to sgemm source, it has about 1
> thousand (or higher) strings in *.cu files. Thereofore I think that a
> bit more difficult alghorithm as some special matrix diagonalization
> will require a lot of programming work :-(.
>
> It's interesting, that when I read Firestream Brook+ "kernel function"
> source example - for addition of 2 vectors ("Building a High Level
> Language Compiler For GPGPU",
> Bixia Zheng ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Derek Gladding ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Micah Villmow ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> June 8th, 2008)
>
> - it looks SIMPLE. May be there are a lot of details/source lines
> which were omitted from this example ?
>
>
>>Vincent
>>p.s. if you ask me, honestely, 250 watt or so for latest gpu is really
>>too much.
>
> 250 W is TDP, the average value declared is about 160 W. I don't
> remember, which GPU - from AMD or Nvidia - has a lot of special
> functional units for sin/cos/exp/etc. If they are not used, may be the
> power will a bit more lower.
>
> What is about Firestream 9250, AMD says about 150 W (although I'm not
> absolutely sure that it's TDP) - it's as for some
> Intel Xeon quad-cores chips w/names beginning from X.
>
> Mikhail
>
>
>>On Aug 23, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, why GPGPUs are considered as vector systems ?
>>> Taking into account that GPGPUs contain many (equal) execution
>>>units,
>>> I think it might be not SIMD, but SPMD model. Or it depends from
>>> the software tools used (CUDA etc) ?
>>>
>>> Mikhail Kuzminsky
>>> Computer Assistance to Chemical Research Center
>>> Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
>>> Moscow
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