27 May
2012
27 May
'12
12:20 p.m.
Re GPU's: With Bill Dally as Chief Scientist at nVidia, one might expect CLMUL to show up in future GPU's... At 10:48 AM 5/27/2012, Joerg Arndt wrote:
* Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> [May 27. 2012 18:14]:
In this day & age of fast CPU's & GPU's, is there any hardware support for multiplication/division over GF(2^k)?
CPU: the new CLMUL instruction, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLMUL_instruction_set
GPU: None that I know about and I'd be surprised if this would even be considered.