Paul Shirkey, Author at CenterSpace

Offloading Computation to your GPU

Posted on June 13, 2013May 3, 2020 by Paul Shirkey

Large computational problems are offloaded onto a GPU because the problems run substantially faster on the GPU than on the CPU. By leveraging the innate parallelism of the GPU overall performance of the application is improved. (For example, see here and here.) However a second collateral benefit of moving computation to the GPU is the resulting offloading of computation from the CPU. But, until t...
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An Introduction to Linear Algebra on the GPU

Posted on June 4, 2013March 1, 2016 by Paul Shirkey

NMath Premium was designed to provide an easy-to-follow path for .NET developers to leverage the performance of the GPU without having to wade through the complexities of GPU programming and their attendant details. NMath Premium allows developers to build once and run anywhere without concerning themselves with their users' installed GPU models and versions, or even the existence of a GPU. NMath ...
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NMath Premium Tuning

Posted on May 31, 2013February 7, 2023 by Paul Shirkey

NMath Premium is the new CenterSpace GPU-accelerated math and statistics library for the .NET platform. The supported NVIDIA GPU routines include both a range of dense linear algebra algorithms and 1D & 2D Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs). NMath Premium is designed to be a near drop-in replacement for NMath, however there are a few important configuration differences and additional logging capab...
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NMath Premium: FFT Performance

Posted on May 28, 2013March 1, 2016 by Paul Shirkey

NMath Premium is our new GPU-accelerated math and statistics library for the .NET platform. The supported NVIDIA GPU routines include both a range of dense linear algebra algorithms and 1D and 2D Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs). NMath Premium is designed to be a near drop-in replacement for NMath, however there are a few important differences and additional logging capabilities that are specific ...
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NMath API updated with .NET Func<> delegates

Posted on May 2, 2012July 18, 2012 by Paul Shirkey

At CenterSpace we are always working hard to keep the core NMath processing kernel start of the art, however changes to our libraries' API usually lag behind any .NET framework developments in a process of deprecation and introduction. The .NET Func<> and Action<> delegates have been a part of the .NET framework now since .NET 3.5 and VS2008. Therefore, we are now deprecating all of ...
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