I'm CEO of AccelerEyes and have been submitting Slashdot articles referencing updates about using GPUs with MATLAB for several years now. It's great to see it finally getting through, albeit via a reference to the "fake" GPU support which the MathWorks threw into PCT in an attempt to curtail the great success we continue to have with Jacket.
For a full explanation of why I say "fake", read,
http://www.accelereyes.com/products/compare
For a brief explanation of why I say "fake" GPU support consider the question, what does supporting GPUs mean? If you can run an FFT are you content? Or do you want to use INV, SVD, EIG, RAND, and the list goes on and on. Jacket has 10X the functionality of PCT-GPU.
Why else is the PCT-GPU implementation weak? Well, it is so poorly constructed (shoehorned into their legacy Java system), that it is rarely more beneficial to use the GPU than the CPU with the PCT-GPU implementation. It takes 600 cycles to load-then-store global memory on the GPU (required in each kernel call). The main innovation that led us to build Jacket is the ability to generate as few kernels as possible to eliminate as many 600 cycle roundtrip transfers as possible. For example, Jacket's runtime system may only launch one kernel for every 20 lines of code. PCT-GPU on the other hand is limited to launching a GPU kernel for every basic function call.
Jacket also has a GFOR loop which is the only parallel FOR-loop for GPUs,
http://wiki.accelereyes.com/wiki/index.php/GFOR_Usage
I'm not aware of any MATLAB programmer that has had a good experience with PCT-GPU.
Finally, because I'm so thrilled at this getting slashdotted (despite it being a link promoting PCT-GPU), I'm be happy to offer free 3 month Jacket subscriptions to anyone that emails me in the next 48 hours with the word "slashdot" in the subject, at john.melonakos@accelereyes.com
Cheers!
PS: Roblimo, if we can get some blurb love in your summary on the main slashdot.org page, it would really mean a ton to all our guys that have worked on this project for the last 4 years!