gpuR-package {gpuR}

GPU functions for R Objects

Description

This package was developed to provide simple to use R functions that leverage the power of GPU's but also retain a format familiar to the R user. There are a hand full of other R packages that provide some GPU functionality but nearly all rely on a CUDA backend thereby restricting the user to NVIDIA GPU hardware. In the spirit of being as broadly applicable as possible, this GPU code herein relies upon OpenCL via the ViennaCL library.

OpenCL, in contrast to CUDA, is open source and can be used across different graphics cards (e.g. NVIDIA, AMD, Intel). This package removes the complex code needed for GPU computing and provides easier to use functions to apply on R objects.

Package:	gpuR
Type:	Package
Version:	1.0.0
Date:	2015-03-31
License:	GPL-3
Copyright:	(c) 2015 Charles E. Determan Jr.
URL:	https://github.com/cdeterman/gpuR
LazyLoad:	yes

Note

There are other packages that also provide wrappers for OpenCL programming including OpenCL by Simon Urbanek and ROpenCL at Open Analytics by Willem Ligtenberg. Both of these packages provide the R user an interface to directly call OpenCL functions. This package, however, hides these functions so the user does not require any knowledge of OpenCL to begin using their GPU. The idea behind this package is to provide a means to begin using existing algorithms without the need to write extensive amounts of C/C++/OpenCL code.

Author(s)

Charles Determan [e-mail]

Maintainer: Charles Determan [e-mail]