[R-sig-hpc] R and CUDA programming

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 January 2011 at 14:49, Vikneswaran Gopal wrote:
| Dear experts,
| 
| I was wondering if it is possible for the individual threads in a CUDA  
| program to access the R API, e.g. to call it's random number  
| generator. If this is possible, is it advisable or is there a  
| recommended way of doing this?
| 
| If it is not possible/advisable, what is the best way to get the GPU  
| device to generate random numbers?

There are several complete RNG examples in the CUDA SDK example sources.

Dirk 

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