GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets

Re:GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets by dekhn on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:23AM (#16858560)

Molecular dynamics has been using GPUs for much longer than Machine Learning. Yes, the accelerations are enormous.

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Re:GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets by Analog24 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @10:48AM (#16858815)

Linear Algebra libraries have been using GPUs for longer than molecular dynamics. What's your point?

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Re:GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets by dekhn on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:08AM (#16859007)

That doesn't jibe with my memory - the first codes running on GPUs at the supercomputer centers that had privileged early access were running MD, without any GPU-accelerated LA libraries.

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Re:GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets by bbgm on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:23PM (#16861970)

My recollection (which is admittedly fuzzy) is in line with yours. MD was the first application of GPU-accelerated computing that I recall (partly cause NVidia seemed to push that). BLAS, LAPACK, etc got GPU-enabled later.

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Re:GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insight Nuggets by neuromantik8086 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @01:37PM (#16860492)

But the accelerations aren't as enormous as they are on Anton's ASICs. :)

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