Using GPUs for data mining

GPUs (Graphical Processing Units) are general purpose processors and offer over 10x the performance of a CPU

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GPUs (Graphical Processing Units) are general purpose processors and offer over 10x the performance of a CPU. The model is of co-processing - you only send the compute intensive code to the GPU, the rest of the code remains unchanged: www.nvidia.com/object/GPU_Computing.html

GPUs are fully programmable in C, C++

There is some early work on data mining/analytics using GPUs, such as

Data Analytics Software using CUDA

• GPUMiner: Parallel Data Mining on NVIDIA GPUs, Fang et al, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Microsoft
• Cmatch: Fast Exact String Matching on the GPU, Schatz, Trapnel, University of Maryland

NVIDIA just announced the Fermi architecture, which offers about 1.3 TF single precision performance and ~650 double precision : www.nvidia.com/fermi

To find out more, contact Sumit Gupta, Sr. Manager - Tesla GPU HPC Group, NVIDIA sugupta at nvidia dot com