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History
Jacket was created in 2007 by Gallagher Pryor, co-founder of AccelerEyes
AccelerEyes
AccelerEyes builds programming tools for parallel programming and visual computing on GPU chipsets. Based in Atlanta, the company released Jacket, a tool to compile MATLAB code for CUDA-enabled GPUs, in June 2008...
. Other original inventors and co-founders include James Malcolm, Tauseef Rehman, and John Melonakos. Jacket was designed to enable high-level programming of GPU devices for rapid prototyping work.
In an October 2008 article, the number of current Jacket users is said to be in the thousands, and includes engineers and scientists in technology companies such as GE
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Jacket use
Jacket is built around the M (or MATLAB) language. Jacket code is executed at the MATLAB command prompt, >> , in the Command Window, or as a .M script. Jacket introduces new GPU-specific data types into MATLAB. Once a GPU data structure has been created, any operations on that GPU matrix are performed on the GPU rather than the CPU. To turn off GPU computation, simply cast the data back to the CPU using one of the MATLAB data types, e.g. double. These functions are used as follows:
The Jacket Multi-GPU License (MGL) extends the single GPU support of the base Jacket product to as many as eight (8) GPUs in a single system image machine. Where high-performance computing (HPC
HPC
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) resources, such as GPU clusters, are already in place, Jacket HPC can be leveraged to run M code across the clusters or Cloud services with 8 GPUs or more.
Graphics support
Jacket includes a Graphics Library for coupling of GPU visualizations with GPU computation. GPU versions of common MATLAB visualization commands are available, including gplot, gsurf, gscatter3, etc.
