Re: [Rd] Tesla GPUs

2011-08-06 Thread Tobias Verbeke
On 08/05/2011 08:36 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:26 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Alireza Mahani wrote: Simon, Thank you for elaborating on the limitations of R in handling float types. I think I'm p

Re: [Rd] Tesla GPUs

2011-08-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: > > On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:26 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Alireza Mahani wrote: >> >>> Simon, >>> >>> Thank you for elaborating on the limitations of R in handling float types. I >>> think I'm pretty much there with

[Rd] Tesla GPUs [Was: Manipulating single-precision (float) arrays in .Call functions]

2011-07-19 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:26 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Alireza Mahani wrote: > >> Simon, >> >> Thank you for elaborating on the limitations of R in handling float types. I >> think I'm pretty much there with you. >> >> As for the insufficiency of single-precision math (an