Re: Possible (summer of code) projects for Octave

[Michael Creel]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:23 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

On  4-Jan-2011, Michael Creel wrote:

| Perhaps some effort to allow GPUs to be used for certain computations would be
| possible? The Theano project mentions "transparent use of a GPU" http://
| deeplearning.net/software/theano/index.html   

Is there any way of doing this that doesn't require proprietary CUDA
libraries?

jwe

There is OpenCL, which I believe is licensed in a way that could be used with Octave. CUDA is definitely a no-go. I haven't looked at GPU stuff for a while though, so I'm not sure.

Michael