I am somewhat familiar with CUDA 4 having just taught a course involving 
this material.
Contact me off-list if you wish.

Yasha Karant

On 06/17/2011 05:31 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> The nVidia graphics card coprocessors with the closed-but-zero-cost
> CUDA programming language are a cheap way to buy a few teraflops
> of single precision array computation.  I am considering some of
> those for some nanoparticle surface bombardment calculations, and
> also for some phased array antenna calculations.  The learning
> curve looks steep, though.
>
> Is anyone on this list familiar with these?  Are there repositories
> of open source example tools, calculations, discussion lists, etc?
> And (hope against hope) is there an open source replacement for
> CUDA out there?  Other suggestions to lower the learning curve?
>
> Keith
>