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Question #214316 on Yade changed:
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Bruno Chareyre posted a new comment:
Yes, CUDA needs deep diving into the structure of the code and I'm not really sure it is worth spending some time on this as GPU processing may be abandoned in a few years.
There are interesting dicussions on this if you google "GPU Xeon Phi". Quoting [1]:

"In the end, GPGPUs are a work in progress. That is the smiley happy term for the English term, “Bloody mess”. The landscape is littered with broken tools, grand promises, failed projects, changing paradigms, and the occasional success story.
[...] Tools are another win for Phi, everything supports x86 CPUs, and that code simply runs on Phi without so much as a line of code changed. [...] This part simply obsoletes the whole GPGPU paradigm and relegates it to generating pretty pictures, not to serious compute work.
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[1] http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/13/what-will-intel-xeon-phi-do-to-
the-gpgpu-market/#.UQuNyJETOaA

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