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- To: eigen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Daniel Lecocq <sowiebinich@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [eigen] BLAS backend
- From: Aron Ahmadia <aja2111@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:42:32 +0300
- Cc: aron.ahmadia@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Dear all,
It actually turns out that one of my students this semester is
considering how to parallelize Eigen using OpenMP for multithreading,
and hopes to be able to investigate the CUDA issue as well. This is
an interesting topic for the expansion of Eigen, and I'm glad the two
primary developers are interested in the topic!
Best,
A
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/10/15 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2009/10/15 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> > Also note how the matrix copies between the CPU and GPU are extremely
>>> > costly... So, now if we agree that a BLAS backend is only worth it to
>>> > get
>>> > GPU support
>>>
>>> There are other use cases:
>>> - parallelized on several cpus/cores
>>
>> well, I hope we'll have multithreading in Eigen soon... Actually, doing it
>> the BLAS way is nearly trivial. The main reason why we still don't have
>> multithreading is because we want to do something smarter providing more
>> control to the user, blabla...
>
> I can see how your blocked products are easy to parallelize, so indeed
> it seems that there's a big difference again between BLAS and LAPACK
> here...
> ---> BLAS : we can parallelize across CPUs , and for the question of
> giving control to the user, let's check what other libraries do; in
> the worst case we might have to introduce a tiny optional binary
> library just for that feature, to host a few static variables...? Just
> a quick idea.
> ---> LAPACK: we want backends there already in the single CPU case.
>
> Benoit
>
>
>