by Michael Feldman, HPCwire Editor
The nascent GPGPU computing world received another boost today with the commercial release of Jacket 1.0, a GPU engine for MATLAB. Jacket was developed by AccelerEyes, a two-year-old Atlanta-based startup that was founded by Georgia Tech grad John Melonakos, who also runs the company. AccelerEyes aims to tap into the enormous user base of engineers and scientists currently using MATLAB, but who would like to take advantage of the latest GPU hardware to accelerate computing and visualization.
In a nutshell, Jacket allows developers to program GPUs in workstations, PCs and embedded systems using MATLAB’s M language. The Jacket runtime manages all CPU-GPU memory transfers, kernel configurations and execution launches behind the scenes. The GPU computing engine is built atop CUDA, NVIDIA’s GPU programming environment, so for the time being only CUDA-capable NVIDIA GPUs are supported.
