Re: GPU Engine for Octave

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2010/1/24 Webb, Allen T <address@hidden>:
> I am looking into trying to use openCL to accelerate octave as a
> project for a graduate class, but I wanted to see if anyone else was
> already working on this.

Someone was interested not long ago to do something similar with CUDA,
but due to licensing issues, I think they were discouraged. You should
grep the mailing list archives and see what you can find.

> Its my understanding that the goal of openCL is to provide an open
> standard for computing so it ought to qualify under the GPL.

At a first glance, the website suggests that they use a permissive
BSD-like license which indeed should be GPL compatible.