gpuR Roadmap

General Roadmap for gpuR development. Subject to changing as needed either to meet pre-determined deadlines or changes in development.

gpuR 1.2.x

Planned Features

• Add Factorizations
  • QR
  • SVD
  • Cholesky
• Control over OpenCL context via setContext (i.e. allow use of desired platform/device for each object)
  • This will allow use of parallel functions such as foreach and mclapply
    • Stalled until can find a way to handle XPtr objects in foreach/mclapply calls
• Try to get rid of BH - only minimally used and is a big package

gpuR 2.0.x

Planned Features

• Accept custom OpenCL kernels
• In-Place operations

gpuR 2.1.x

• Ability to createContext to choose multiple devices for context
• Use of multiple GPU's on individual objects (within same context) 'automatically'
  • Likely just put in backend (if devices > 1 for object then 'chunk')
  • This will be problematic for factorization/solvers as not implemented by ViennaCL and not a simple process (such as most BLAS operations)