2. MATLAB and the GPU Who is AccelerEyes? What’s a GPU?
AccelerEyes is a MathWorks partner
Jacket: GPU Engine for MATLAB
What’s a GPU?
Graphics processing unit
Traditionally used for video games
Now redesigned for use for science as well
Massively parallel with 240 processor cores

3. MATLAB and the GPU Who is AccelerEyes? What’s a GPU?
AccelerEyes is a MathWorks partner
Jacket: GPU Engine for MATLAB
What’s a GPU?
Graphics processing unit
Traditionally used for video games
Now redesigned for use for science as well
Massively parallel with 240 processor cores
What’s in it for you?
Low-priced speed

4. MATLAB Options CPU Solutions (blue arrows) GPU Solutions (green arrow)
MATLAB and the Parallel Computing toolbox enable PC and clustered MATLAB computing
GPU Solutions (green arrow)
Jacket enables CUDA MATLAB Computing 4

5. Why GPUs?
Speed

6. Why Jacket?
Jacket combines the speed of CUDA and the graphics of the GPU with the user friendliness of MATLAB.

7. Supported platforms?

8. This Neural Net only required 3 changes (in red).
Jacket at Work
This Neural Net only required 3 changes (in red).
CPU
GPU

9. 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

10. 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.

11. Kernel Benchmarks
54x Speedup
16x Speedup 11

12. Application Benchmarks12

15. Some Jacket Customers

16. 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

17. Jacket Pricing

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