Can I program Nvidia's CUDA using only Python or do I have to learn C?

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Aquateenfan picture Aquateenfan · Jun 1, 2010 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

I guess the question speaks for itself. I'm interested in doing some serious computations but am not a programmer by trade. I can string enough python together to get done what I want. But can I write a program in python and have the GPU execute it using CUDA? Or do I have to use some mix of python and C?

The examples on Klockner's (sp) "pyCUDA" webpage had a mix of both python and C, so I'm not sure what the answer is.

If anyone wants to chime in about Opencl, feel free. I heard about this CUDA business only a couple of weeks ago and didn't know you could use your video cards like this.

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dwf picture dwf · Jun 20, 2010

You should take a look at CUDAmat and Theano. Both are approaches to writing code that executes on the GPU without really having to know much about GPU programming.

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