[Beowulf] What class of PDEs/numerical schemes suitable for GPU clusters

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 19 23:23:47 PST 2008


2008/11/20 Ellis Wilson <xclski at yahoo.com>

> ...
>
> This said, I've had a nagging question of late - if I purchase an ATI
> desktop graphics card that has streams akin to the official workstation
> FireStream GPU processor, can I write code using their SDK that will work on
> the desktop cards, often times within my college kid budget, unlike the
> FireStream series?
>

Ellis, I can't say re. the Firestream cards, but for Nvidia the answer is a
resounding yes.
Virtually any recent card can run CUDA code. If you Google you can get a
list of compatible cards.
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