Re: [Swarm-Modelling] ABMs on Graphical Processor Units

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Russell Standish wrote:
> It sounds like one could do MPI on the Cell, however, which would allow
> Graphcode-based applications written in EcoLab to work.
Unfortunately, the ELF text section of OpenMPI is around 5 times too big 
to fit on a Cell local store.   It might be possible to strip it down, 
but after all that work you'd probably have something that looked a lot 
like libspe2:

http://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/1DFEF31B3211112587257242007883F3/$file/SPE_Runtime_Management_API_v2.2.pdf
> GPUs are a different kettle of fish, as they are definitely SIMD based
> (apply the same instruction to an array of pixels). 
>   
Nonetheless..

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/1_1/NVIDIA_CUDA_Programming_Guide_1.1.pdf

It's also worth noting that development kits for field programmable gate 
arrays  (FPGA) also have C dialect languages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impulse_C

For those times that you really want to be able to optimize over the 
parameter space for an ABM.  :-)