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		gh02t on Sept 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Drop-in GPU Acceleration of GNU Octave Uh most recent Nvidia GPUs support double precision, albeit at a speed penalty. And they are using a Tesla card in the article. It says they are using a K10.

foxhill on Sept 12, 2014 [–]

of course they all can do double, but at 1/24th of the speed of single. (1/32th in maxwell)

they use a GK104 based tesla, i.e a "dual GPU" GTX680, so it has no real double precision. unless you consider 2x 95GFlops noteworthy.

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