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Re: [Condor-users] Condor and GPUs



On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:59:47AM +0100, Mark Calleja wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just out of interest, is anyone using Condor in conjunction with 
> graphical processing units, especially those supporting CUDA? Are there 
> any plans by the Condor project to support such platforms? In a related 
> vein, what about Cell processors? Any plans to exploit these via Condor?

While these two sound like ambitious projects (and certainly feasible,
given enough manpower), some of us would like to see some multi-core
support first (which, for me, would include flexible management not only
of the multiple cores but also the memory shared by them, threading, etc.).

Cells *are* already supported (there's Condor for YellowDog Linux), but
AFAICT only for the PPE. SPEs would accept only special code not everyone
is able to write now; but in a certain sense that's similar to the 
thread/multicore issue (what one needs is a manager for those resources).
If you just run a single app on the Cell PPE that knows how to check for
free SPEs etc you're set...

Steffen