{"id":92,"date":"2011-01-17T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2011-01-17T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T14:51:00","slug":"mapreduce-on-cuda-using-python-and-a-discontinuous-galerkin-solver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"MapReduce on CUDA using Python (and a Discontinuous Galerkin solver!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/volcore.limbicsoft.com\/\">volcore<\/a> pointed out, there is a library called <a href=\"http:\/\/documen.tician.de\/pycuda\/\">pycuda<\/a>, which allows for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/cuda\/\">CUDA<\/a> programming in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org\/\">Python<\/a>. It also comes with a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/documen.tician.de\/pycuda\/array.html#module-pycuda.reduction\">ReductionKernel<\/a> class, which allows one to rapidly develop custom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapreduce.org\/\">MapReduce<\/a> kernels.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Even better, the same author has <a href=\"http:\/\/mathema.tician.de\/software\/hedge\">published a Discontinuous Galerkin<\/a> solver, based on the same stuff. This can be used to solve partial differential equations, e.g. for fluid simulations, but also for EM simulations, using Maxwell&#8217;s equations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As volcore pointed out, there is a library called pycuda, which allows for CUDA programming in Python. It also comes with a nice ReductionKernel class, which allows one to rapidly develop custom MapReduce kernels. Update: Even better, the same author has published a Discontinuous Galerkin solver, based on the same stuff. This can be used &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/?p=92\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MapReduce on CUDA using Python (and a Discontinuous Galerkin solver!)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,70,69,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.root42.de\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}