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MATLAB built for Speed: Jacket SGEMM tops 700 GFLOPS on the GPU
- Q6T46nT668w6i3m 16y agoJacket is incredibly impressive. However, since I started using it I’ve noticed that I’ve spent more time benchmarking than I have doing math! Furthermore, I suspect it’s prohibitively expensive for most. However, GPUmat (http://www.gp-you.org http://www.gp-you.org) is a notable free alternative.
- blahblahblah 16y agoI'm kind of surprised that MathWorks hasn't acquired Accelereyes yet. It seems to me that Jacket would be a great thing to either integrate into the core of MATLAB, boosting MATLAB's competitiveness with other tools such as IDL and Maple, or to sell as one of the many add-on toolboxes, leveraging their long-standing relationship with academia to build mindshare among young engineers.
- beagle3 16y agoMathWorks is not feeling intimidated by IDL, Maple or for that matter Accelereyes yet. Why should they spend money? They might pay attention if Accelereyes gains traction. They did 10 years ago or so with MathTools.
- blahblahblah 16y agoFeeling intimidated by your competition isn't a prerequisite for wanting to eat their lunch. There's also potential to expand the market for MATLAB by getting some of the Fortran & C scientific computing crowd to reconsider whether writing low-level code is worth the additional pain when the value of doing so for performance reasons is highly questionable.
- pavanky 16y ago@Q6T56nT668w613m That is what you get when you have a shiny new toy you can not get your hands off ;) As for it being prohibitively expensive, it is competitive (and sometimes a lot cheaper) than the equivalent matlab toolboxes.