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MATLAB and the GPU

• Who is AccelerEyes?
• AccelerEyes is a MathWorks partner
• Jacket GPU Engine for MATLAB

• Whats a GPU?
• Graphics processing unit
• Traditionally used for video games
• Now redesigned for use for science as well
• Massively parallel with 240 processor cores

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MATLAB and the GPU

• Who is AccelerEyes?
• AccelerEyes is a MathWorks partner
• Jacket GPU Engine for MATLAB

• Whats a GPU?
• Graphics processing unit
• Traditionally used for video games
• Now redesigned for use for science as well
• Massively parallel with 240 processor cores

• Whats in it for you?
• Low-priced speed

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MATLAB Options

• CPU Solutions (blue arrows)
• MATLAB and the Parallel Computing toolbox enable
  PC and clustered MATLAB computing
• GPU Solutions (green arrow)
• Jacket enables CUDA MATLAB Computing

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Why GPUs?

• Speed

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Why Jacket?
Jacket combines the speed of CUDA and the
graphics of the GPU with the user friendliness of
MATLAB.
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Supported platforms?
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Jacket at Work
This Neural Net only required 3 changes (in red).
CPU
GPU
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Jacket Functionality

• standard CUDA functionality libraries
• MEX files CUDA
• Customized low-level GPU codes

• Generators geye, gones, gzeros
• Element-wise , , -, /
• Reductions sum, min, max
• Indexing subscripted referencing /
  subscripted assignment
• Linear Algebra matrix multiply,
• FFT fft, ifft, fftn, ifftn
• Filtering filter, filter2, convn
• Interpolation interp2
• Parallel for-loops gfor

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Graphics Toolbox
Jacket includes the Graphics Toolbox

• True visual computing
• OpenGL API in MATLAB
• Interactive OpenGL
• Key functions gsurf, gimage, gscatter3, gplot,
  
• Visualization scripts are open and modifiable.

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Kernel Benchmarks
54x Speedup
16x Speedup
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Application Benchmarks
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Some Jacket Customers
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Jacket Roadmap 09-10

• more gfor
• gdouble
• multi-GPU support (for clusters of GPUs)
• LAPACK (eig, inv, etc.)
• signal processing
• image processing (and computer vision)
• statistical functions
• handle graphics
• Simulink on the GPU
• lots of other MATLAB functions (finance, biology,
  etc.)

Low-end
Toolboxes
High-end
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Jacket Pricing
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