Thread Subject: Does Jacket really works?

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

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

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

Hi,

you can try our Freeware library GPUmat from http://www.gp-you.org. GPUmat enables Matlab code to run on GPUs. Check the documentation to find out how many features we have implemented. Its for free!

Thanks,
The GP-you Group