[update] short support in eigen

There was recently some good news on the vectorization for short operations front. I may be able to do it with a little less work then. If you want to follow the work that's being done on this, follow this thread. Help welcome, of course!

Now we have native 64 bit builds for chromium in fedora. Thanks to the chromium team and Tom, who has been maintaining those builds. This post was written using 64 bit chromium on fedora.

Adding short support to eigen

I have started work on adding short support to eigen. I think this would help me a lot as I don't need an int in my work. Short should be just fine. You can follow the progress of my work here. There is no vectorization support yet, but it should be able to generate scalar code just fine. For more in depth discussion on this, follow this thread.

Writing unit tests is up next.

Emacs 23

Is it just me, or emacs 23 (the one that ships with fedora, not ubuntu) does kinda look cool?

BTW, it broke cuda mode, dunno why? :(

Google Wave goes live on 30th sept.

Sept is shaping up to be an exciting month. AMD's dx11 class gpu's launch on sept. 10, and Google Wave will go live on 30th. It seems that Wave will be by-invitation-only, just like gmail was initially. :(

But still, let's hope it will open up faster.

Installing AMD's opencl implementation for CPU

I just installed AMD's implementation of OpenCL for it's CPU's on Fedora 11, x86-64. Here's how to do it.

1. Download the SDK from here. and unpack the sdk.

1A. Move the decompressed archive into the place where you want to install it. I chose /home/rpg/bin. I don't like binary crap arbitrarily polluting my system directories and settings.

2. Enter the directory of the sdk and do

$make

You could use make -j2 or even make -j4 if you have multiple cores to burn.

3. Now you need to add a few places to your paths. Add this to your .bashrc and .bash_profile files. Both of them should be in your home folder.

ATISTREAMSDKROOT=/home/rpg/bin/ati-stream-sdk-v2.0-beta2-lnx64

export ATISTREAMSDKROOT

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ATISTREAMSDKROOT/lib/x86_64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

The installation notes provided by SDK have some typos. For a start, it is lib and not bin and you add different folders for different architectures. And you definitely don't need root access for this.

Lucky me though, I have a SSE3 capable CPU. It is ironic to note that the inventor of x86-64 is leaving behind the classic x86-64. I wonder why they felt SSE3 was mandatory.

After all this, this is what I get to see,

$ ./BlackScholes

For test only: Expires on Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 2009

deviceCallPrice

0.118873 7.04261 0 0.00272289 0 33.9944 5.90269 0.0174322 15.6142 31.8218 0.208182 31.4897 36.4303 4.70751 0 0 0.180582 0 23.1549 0 56.4034 19.635 38.0241 0.00524368 2.9981 52.4114 33.1443 50.3665 0 36.6461 0.167021 0.00245133

devicePutPrice

9.18383 0.216879 56.2858 23.5745 51.5608 3.39307e-06 0.0396819 14.4737 0.00709584 0 5.18874 0 0 3.79125 63.0257 49.3472 17.1783 51.754 0.191513 16.1561 0 0 0 29.3654 0.00833774 0 0 4.21006e-06 17.8919 6.60636e-05 4.04936 31.1893

Option samples Time taken(sec) Options / sec

4096 1.565 2617.25

$>

The exact paths have been scrubbed from the output here though. Enjoy!

Chrome working again

Chrome is working again. Inside IITB. :)