there is a gpu engine for matlab:
http://www.accelereyes.com/
perhaps some day there will be one for stata/mata.
and yes, these days nvidia does support double precision.
mike
--- On Mon, 8/24/09, David Airey <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: David Airey <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: GPUs and statistical computing
> To: "Statalist" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 12:28 AM
> .
>
> In the following interesting article,
>
> http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/2/149
>
> the authors "...show that a single GPU machine containing
> three GPUs that costs $2000 performs similarly to 150 CPUs
> on a compute cluster. These CPUs, including the added
> infrastructure and support cost of the cluster system, would
> cost approximately $82,500."
>
> Occasionally I ask Stata Corp about the possibility of
> parallel computing using graphics processing chips, for
> example:
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-06/msg00329.html
>
> The problem seems to be that GPUs do not generally support
> double-precision arithmetic. I guess one question for the
> authors of the above article is: fast yes, but precise?
>
> -Dave
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