[Rd] Master's project to coerce linux nvidia drivers to run generalised linear models

[Marc Schwartz (via MN)]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:24 -0500, Oliver LYTTELTON wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am working with a friend on a master's project. Our laboratory does a 
> lot of statistical analysis using the R stats package and we also have a 
> lot of under-utilised nvidia cards sitting in the back of our networked 
> linux machines. Our idea is to coerce the linux nvidia driver to run 
> some of our statistical analysis for us. Our first thought was to 
> specifically code up a version of glm() to run on the nvidia cards...
> 
> Thinking that this might be of use to the broader community we thought 
> we might ask for feedback before starting?
> 
> Any ideas...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Olly


Well, I'll bite.

My first reaction to this was, why?


Then I did some Googling and found the following article:

http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf/0/5F125BA4653309A3CA25705A0005AD27


And also noted the GPU Gems 2 site here:

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpu_gems_2_home.html


So, my new found perspective is, why not?


Best wishes for success, especially since I have a certain affinity for
McGill...

HTH,

Marc Schwartz