R and GPUs
The R community has developed a few packages for R programmers to leverage GPUs. The vectorized nature of R makes the use of GPUs a natural fit. The packages vary in the level of encapsulation and hence the required familiarity with the native CUDA or OpenCL languages. A selection of R packages for GPU programming are listed here:
gputools: This provides R functions that wrap around GPU-based algorithms for common operations, such as linear models and matrix algebra. It requires CUDA, and hence an NVIDIA GPU.gmatrix: This provides thegmatrixandgvectorclasses to represent matrices and vectors respectively in NVIDIA GPUs. It also provides functions for common matrix operations such as matrix algebra, and random number generation and sorting.RCUDA: This provides a low-level interface to load and call a CUDA kernel from an R session. Using RCUDA requires a good understanding of the CUDA language, but allows more flexibility and code optimization. More information about t can be...