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Re: GPU computing for octave
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David Bateman |
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Re: GPU computing for octave |
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Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:07:24 +0100 |
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Ronny Lindner wrote:
> David Bateman wrote:
> > However, wouldn't trying to use the CUDA interface with Octave already
> > be a good start.. Octave can use matlab mex file in source code form and
> > CUDA mex files are supplied with their source.. Also it seems that the
> > NVIDIA GPU works on C99 complex values rather than their real and
> > imaginary parts as matlab doe, so there will be speed improvements if
> > these files were converted directly to oct-files
>
> there are some license issues between CUDA and Octave, CUDA is mostly
> closed source and Octave is GPLv3.
Yes, but the mex file is for matlab, as long as you don't distribute the
binary of teh mex file build with Octave, the GPL doesn't come into play...
D.
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