H Bill, I am not aware of any packages that do this for you directly. While it is certainly possible to write a Metal shader that will get the job done, it will likely take a substantial amount of non-trivial effort. To further complicate the issue Apple GPUs do not support double-precision computation (used by R).
Maybe it would be possible for you to accelerate computation used Apple-provided routines from the Acceleration framework (e.g. BLAS and LAPACK)? Many of those routines have access to the hardware matrix accelerators present on Apple hardware and can result in major performance improvements. Best, Taras > On 21 Feb 2023, at 18:12, William R Revelle <reve...@northwestern.edu> wrote: > > Dear R-Mac users. > > In trying to speed up a large correlation problem (600K subjects, 6k > variables,) which I can do using my bigCor function, I decided it was time > to learn how to use GPU on my Mac book with its M1 Max gpu. > > Having spent a day searching the web and trying various approaches, I give > up. > > Are there any packages I can use to do calculations on the GPU part of my Mac > using R? > > Thanks. > > Bill > > William Revelle personality-project.org/revelle.html > Professor personality-project.org > Department of Psychology www.wcas.northwestern.edu/psych/ > Northwestern University www.northwestern.edu/ > Use R for psychology personality-project.org/r > It is 90 seconds to midnight www.thebulletin.org > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
