Re:Support off-loading computations to a GPU

2016-01-03 Thread Allen Zhang
Hi Kazuaki, I am looking at http://kiszk.github.io/spark-gpu/ , can you point me where is the kick-start scripts that I can give it a go? to be more specifically, what does *"off-loading"* mean? aims to reduce the copy overhead between CPU and GPU? I am a newbie for GPU, how can I specify how

Support off-loading computations to a GPU

2016-01-03 Thread Kazuaki Ishizaki
Dear all, We reopened the existing JIRA entry https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-3785 to support off-loading computations to a GPU by adding a description for our prototype. We are working to effectively and easily exploit GPUs on Spark at http://github.com/kiszk/spark-gpu. Please als