[pro] GPU/CUDA & common lisp

[Tamas Papp]

Hi everyone,

I am about to buy a new server for number crunching, and I would like to 
keep my options open about GPU/CUDA based computations.  The most 
intensively parallelizable thing that I am doing is particle filtering, 
and currently that works fine (and is really fast) in a multi-core CPU 
with SBCL, but I keep hearing wonderful things about GPUs from people, 
and I was wondering if I could make use of them but still program in CL.

I basically have two questions:

- What is the current status of using CPUs for computation in CL (in 
particular SBCL)?  All I found was CL-GPU but I haven't tried it yet (my 
current server does not have a GPU).

- What hardware is supported (if I want to use CL)?  Can I use something 
like Nvidia's TESCLA C line?

Any help/pointers/accounts would be appreciated, I am just exploring this 
so I don't know much about it yet, apologies if I am not asking the right 
questions.

Best,

Tamas