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I wondered the same thing. Anyway, it looks quite suspicious that you have to register to get a pricing. I checked and for personal (non-commercial) use the price was $2400 .  This is more expensive than the basic individual license for MATLAB itself!! 

So, I am not planning to purchase jacket. I'm working on writing my own .mex files for CUDA support. I've seen some nice examples here at MATLAB central. I hope that we as a community manage to get the standard matrix operations working in CUDA.


Jaime Zamora <jaime.zamora@gmail.com> wrote in message <a946e43c-6290-4e49-94e7-65734a3cd7e7@c12g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>...
> I just found this:
> 
> http://www.jrti.com/products/software/accelereyes_jacket.html
> 
>  Jacket is a GPU engine for MATLAB=AE. Jacket enables standard MATLAB
> code to run on any NVIDIA CUDA-capable GPU, from the GeForce 8400 to
> the Tesla C1060. Jacket introduces new data types to MATLAB which let
> you move your data and computations to the GPU.
> Jacket is not another GPU API, nor is it simply a collection of GPU
> MEX functions. Rather, it is a complete and transparent system,
> automatically making memory transfer and execution optimization
> decisions. Jacket uses a compile on-the-fly system to allow GPU
> functions to run in MATLAB's interpretive style.
> 
> Does it really works? It speeds up all toolboxes? Is there anyone
> familiar with it?
> 
> Best,
> Jaime