GPU Accelerated Google Sheets?

[tomoki]

Hi,

 

I'm here to ask if anyone possibly knows about using their GPU to do calculations for Google Sheets. From what I understand, Google Javascript functions are run on the server; however, Google Sheet formula calculations are done locally. Because our workplace CPUs are a tad bit slow, I was hoping the internal graphics or whatever graphics we had could help do calculations as well. I turned on WebGL on Google Chrome and found this one thing on GitHub called gpu.js. I don't know how to implement it or use anything from GitHub. Is there any other way I could use my GPU for Google Sheets local calculations? Any help would be highly appreciated! I am trying to improve the work environment for everyone here and our IT department isn't cooperating by providing us with better hardware that I would rather have in our systems. Thank you

[2FA]

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/enable-hardware-acceleration-in-chrome.html

[APasz]

The GPU will already be doing what it can, which isn't a huge amount.

[patrickjp93]

1 hour ago, APasz said:

The GPU will already be doing what it can, which isn't a huge amount.

That depends on whether or not they're using sheets for statistical forecasting or simulation. That's a lot of potentially parallel calculations.

[APasz]

43 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

That depends on whether or not they're using sheets for statistical forecasting or simulation. That's a lot of potentially parallel calculations.

I agree but there is a limit to what can be done with google sheets or any over net number crunching systems. Unless something has changed in the last few months since I last had a look. The GPU can't be fully utilised.

[patrickjp93]

5 minutes ago, APasz said:

I agree but there is a limit to what can be done with google sheets or any over net number crunching systems. Unless something has changed in the last few months since I last had a look. The GPU can't be fully utilised.

If it uses OpenMP offloading, OpenACC, or OpenCL, the GPU can be fully utilized. It's no different than having excel or calc do it.

[vorticalbox]

14 hours ago, patrickjp93 said:

If it uses OpenMP offloading, OpenACC, or OpenCL, the GPU can be fully utilized. It's no different than having excel or calc do it.

is there any way to know if it does?

[tomoki]

So essentially, if I were to stick with Google Sheets, nothing can be done until I upgrade my existing hardware to do better number crunching. Is that correct? 

[APasz]

Essentially yes.

[patrickjp93]

5 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

is there any way to know if it does?

You'd have to dynamically scan RAM while using Google sheets and hope you get lucky and find either p-thread code or a GPU kernel.

 

4 hours ago, tomoki said:

So essentially, if I were to stick with Google Sheets, nothing can be done until I upgrade my existing hardware to do better number crunching. Is that correct? 

Even Kepler can do OpenCL.