If you have a compatible nVidia graphics card (anything within the last 3 years), you should look into CUDA (http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html). It's got a steep learning curve at first, but it's quite awesome. OpenCL is another option designed to be more cross-platform. Either way, you basically write some code in C (well...C with a few extensions and limitations) and it executes in parallel on the GPU.
The current batch of nVidia GPUs support floats with both single precision and double precision, although there is a significant performance penalty with double precision for most applications. With the announcement nVidia made today, though, there will soon be new cards with much less of a performance penalty for double precision.
This type of simulation can be and is being done using CUDA. In fact a talk is being given at the upcoming nVidia technology conference on this very subject.
nVidia's website won't let me create a direct link, but if you click here and then Session Catalog > Session ID 1036, you can read the abstract.
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If you have a compatible nVidia graphics card (anything within the last 3 years), you should look into CUDA (http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html). It's got a steep learning curve at first, but it's quite awesome. OpenCL is another option designed to be more cross-platform. Either way, you basically write some code in C (well...C with a few extensions and limitations) and it executes in parallel on the GPU. The current batch of nVidia GPUs support floats with both single precision and double precision, although there is a significant performance penalty with double precision for most applications. With the announcement nVidia made today, though, there will soon be new cards with much less of a performance penalty for double precision.
This type of simulation can be and is being done using CUDA. In fact a talk is being given at the upcoming nVidia technology conference on this very subject. nVidia's website won't let me create a direct link, but if you click here and then Session Catalog > Session ID 1036, you can read the abstract.
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