[Beowulf] Inside Tsubame - the Nvidia GPU supercomputer - OpenCL

Chris Samuel csamuel at vpac.org
Fri Dec 12 14:01:31 PST 2008


----- "John Hearns" <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Emmmm.... I'm no expert on Clearspeed, but AFAIK
> Clearspeeds selling point is that the cards run
> standard maths library functions - ie. you just
> 'drop in' a compatible maths library and the card
> gets given the computations to do.

AMD are working on a version of their Core Maths Library
(ACML) that can offload to a compatible ATI GPU if
it's installed.

cheers,
Chris
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