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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:03:51PM +0100, Marie E. Rognes wrote:
> On 01/20/2011 10:10 PM, Johan Hake wrote:
>
>     Florian!
>
>     Out of curiosity, are you planing to implement GPU assembly too? To me it
>     looked like your code "only" exploited solve on the GPU.
>
>     I guess GPU assemble is even more parallelizable than the solving process. At
>     least if you settle with gathering the elemement matrices in parallel and then
>     fanning them out in some sort of serial operation. In this way you miss the
>     possibility to solve on the GPU, which I guess you are exploiting.
>
>
>
> I'm real interested too in hearing more about your plans!
>
> There has been quite a bit of mentions with regard to "doing stuff on GPUs"
> from different parts of the FEniCS community over the last year or so. Is there
> a master plan out there somewhere?

I don't think there's a master plan (yet), but many are interested and
the group at Imperial have been working on it for some time. It would
be interesting to hear more about the progress.

--
Anders