Converting parfor operations to gpuArray
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I have a working parallel version of a code that does some likelihood calculations on a reasonably large matrix in parallel (using parfar) It is a trivially parallel operation as the calculation is performed column-wise & the parfor is employed to operate on the columns of data (one worker per column)
How could I achieve the same thing using a GPU (since the matrix is quite big & I have limited number of workers). All the operations are all GPU supported functions (matrix algebra ones like eig, diag & matrix multiplications only )
ie.,
data = 1000 by 200 (1000 rows by 200 cols matrix)
[nrows, ncols] = size(data);
parfor ix = 1:ncols
workerData = data(:,ix);
likelihood(ix) = funcCalcLikelihood(workerData, params);
end
This is fast enough. But i need to repeat such calculations many times so as to do a parameter sweep, so any speed increment will be good. Also, since my dataset is getting bigger (ncols = 1500 & I only have 144 max workers)
I have 2 Tesla (c2050) GPUS and was wondering if I could convert this into a gpuArray operation.
Thanks for your inputs.
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Edric Ellis
on 6 Aug 2013
Edited: Edric Ellis
on 6 Aug 2013
Does it work simply to convert put 'data' on the gpu by calling gpuArray? gpuArrays can automatically flow in and out from PARFOR loops (providing a GPU is available on the client machine and the workers). Whether or not that is the most efficient thing you could do depends rather on the contents of 'funcCalcLikelihood'.
nah
on 19 Aug 2013
nah
on 6 Sep 2013
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