Bug#996958: ITP: mumax -- GPU accelerated micromagnetic simulator

[Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org>]

Le 21/10/2021 à 15:13, Thaddeus H. Black a écrit :
> That's a neat project.
>
> The README.md says:
> > if you don't have git:
> >
> > *  seriously, no git?
> The question is not whether one does not have git, but whether one does
> not have CUDA, unfortunately.
Yes, this will have to go to contrib.
> > The Design and Verification of mumax3:
> >
> > http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/4/10/10.1063/1.4899186
> The hyperlink seems to be paywalled or broken.
Same for me.
> You write:
> > A speed-up of the order of 100x compared to CPU-based simulations can
> > easily be reached....
> Since I am unable to view the paper, would you briefly, approximately
> tell me how you achieved the speed-up?  Alternately, would you link me
> to relevant presentation slides, a presentation video, or the like?
> Again alternately, would you advise me in which source file one should
> look for the core of the main loop, where the 100x speed-up is
> implemented?

This sentence was copy/pasted from http://mumax.github.io/. I haven't 
really started working on the package yet, nor am I a regular user.

> […]
> Anyway, if you believe that your code is a good example, then I'd be
> interested to see how you have achieved the 100x.

I guess you should ask upstream rather than me, I'm just a poor packager 
in this case :-)

Roland.