topic Re: Can one utilize CUDA in SAS EG to speed up Optimization Models? in SAS Enterprise Guide

Can one utilize CUDA in SAS EG to speed up Optimization Models?

SASAlex101 — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 19:00:28 GMT

I don't know where to begin. I've never seen CUDA or worked with it before, but it would seem to speed up non linear problem sets. Any suggestions on where I could start? Is this even possible in EG?

Re: Can one utilize CUDA in SAS EG to speed up Optimization Models?

SASKiwi — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 05:52:34 GMT

Why are you asking this question - what problem do you have with a SAS Optimization Model? You could at least explain what you mean by CUDA. A quick Google search came up with this Wikipedia entry which is what I guess you mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA

CUDA (or Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for general purpose processing, an approach called general-purpose computing on GPUs (GPGPU). CUDA is a software layer that gives direct access to the GPU's virtual instruction set and parallel computational elements, for the execution of compute kernels.^[1]

I doubt very much that CUDA will work with SAS. For starters it uses GPUs which are only present on high-end video cards. Servers don't have GPUs so it wouldn't even be an option if you are using SAS on a server.

Re: Can one utilize CUDA in SAS EG to speed up Optimization Models?

abad12049820958 — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 01:47:56 GMT

In Optimization Models I never seen , but by FCMP you can use cuda with sas. In servers sas Viya you can to use a conteiner for example in azure with GPU.

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