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Question #214316 on Yade changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/yade/+question/214316

Bruno Chareyre posted a new comment:
It worth implementing of course, in the sense that a parallel
implementation should normally go faster than a non-parallel
implementation, and that 248 cores (GPU) should be better than 4 cores
(quad CPU).

The point is GPU (Cuda) needs to completely re-design yade if you want a
chance to gain speed, it means a lot of man*hour for the initial
implementation and even more man*hour to keep track of the changes in
the language itslef. If ordinary CPUs are going to also have hundreds of
cores (Xeon Phi) and would run yade without any change in the code, why
should we spend time adapting yade to a GPU technology that may be soon
obsolete?

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