Using GPUs with LabVIEW for application development

[sumitg]

There is a new free download available on NI Labs that enables using CUDA GPUs with LabVIEW

http://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-6064

Pretty good performance boost possible using GPUs

[tkuiper]

I feel like such a geek, but this was one of the reasons I bought a $200 nVidia video card for my LabVIEW development machine...

[Gary Rubin]

My impression is that you have to write your number-crunching code in C using CUDA, and this just gives you a way to call that code from LabVIEW. Not being a C programmer, I was hoping for something that would let me target the GPU with my native LabVIEW code (or at least something that looks like native LabVIEW code).

[Dirk J.]

That's the way it is for now, I guess.

There are a couple of interesting CUDA libraries around (such as CUFTT, which implements Fourier transforms on the GPU) that could be ported to LabVIEW just the way as CUBLAS.

That would have immediate benefit. I've been toying around with it for the last couple of days, but with my somewhat limited knowledge of DLL incorporation, it has given me a lot of crashes so far ....

/dirk

Edited August 18, 2009 by Dirk J.