topic Re: Has anyone used ArcMap with a GPU accelerator such as the Tesla K20? in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/has-anyone-used-arcmap-with-a-gpu-accelerator-such/m-p/6696#M276 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm not sure if you refer to a portion of functionality in ArcMap or ... ArcMap.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>There are performance boosts for specific tasks run in GPU accelerated/GPGPU but those are very specific tasks. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Not all computational problems benefit from GPU accelerated/GPGPU development. The computational problems best suited for GPGPU are those take advantage many parallel streams of processing on individual cores within a GPU. A CPU has alot of capabilities that an individual GPU doesn't have, including interface with the OS, other devices (memory, storage) on or attached to the motherboard.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You mentioned ArcMap which is a big Windows app that does alot of tasks. Most of those tasks are not suitable for the type of processing suited to a GPU, but suited to a CPU and all of the resources it manages.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>As you can tell from the blog you referenced, it took some effort to optimize a small portion of functionality. As far as ArcMap directly from a GPU accelerator, no. The user has to target specific areas of functionality that are suitable based on characteristics of the processing and data.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:27:32 GMT JohnMeza 2014-04-07T21:27:32Z Has anyone used ArcMap with a GPU accelerator such as the Tesla K20? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/has-anyone-used-arcmap-with-a-gpu-accelerator-such/m-p/6695#M275 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Has anyone used ArcMap with a GPU accelerator such as the Tesla K20?&nbsp; I'm curious if there is a significant performance boost on complex tasks, and if so how much.&nbsp; There was a blog post in 2010 on the subject matter, but I am unsure if he achieved such boosts without using special enhancements to the system.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>example product:</SPAN><BR /><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-workstations.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-workstations.html</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>2010 blog post: </SPAN><BR /><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://blogs.esri.com/esri/apl/2010/03/30/computations-on-vector-data-using-a-gpu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blogs.esri.com/esri/apl/2010/03/30/computations-on-vector-data-using-a-gpu/</A></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:00:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/has-anyone-used-arcmap-with-a-gpu-accelerator-such/m-p/6695#M275 karldailey 2014-04-04T14:00:44Z Re: Has anyone used ArcMap with a GPU accelerator such as the Tesla K20? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/has-anyone-used-arcmap-with-a-gpu-accelerator-such/m-p/6696#M276 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hello,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I'm not sure if you refer to a portion of functionality in ArcMap or ... ArcMap.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>There are performance boosts for specific tasks run in GPU accelerated/GPGPU but those are very specific tasks. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Not all computational problems benefit from GPU accelerated/GPGPU development. The computational problems best suited for GPGPU are those take advantage many parallel streams of processing on individual cores within a GPU. A CPU has alot of capabilities that an individual GPU doesn't have, including interface with the OS, other devices (memory, storage) on or attached to the motherboard.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You mentioned ArcMap which is a big Windows app that does alot of tasks. Most of those tasks are not suitable for the type of processing suited to a GPU, but suited to a CPU and all of the resources it manages.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>As you can tell from the blog you referenced, it took some effort to optimize a small portion of functionality. As far as ArcMap directly from a GPU accelerator, no. The user has to target specific areas of functionality that are suitable based on characteristics of the processing and data.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:27:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/has-anyone-used-arcmap-with-a-gpu-accelerator-such/m-p/6696#M276 JohnMeza 2014-04-07T21:27:32Z Re: Has anyone used ArcMap with a GPU accelerator such as the Tesla K20? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/has-anyone-used-arcmap-with-a-gpu-accelerator-such/m-p/6697#M277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Thanks John, thats the information I was looking for.&nbsp; I thought it might be the case but wasn't sure</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:51:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/has-anyone-used-arcmap-with-a-gpu-accelerator-such/m-p/6697#M277 karldailey 2014-04-11T15:51:17Z