Tutorial by Topics: computing

A reminder: DT[where, select|update|do, by] syntax is used to work with columns of a data.table. The "where" part is the i argument The "select|update|do" part is the j argument These two arguments are usually passed by position instead of by name.

GPU computing requires a 'platform' which can connect to and utilize the hardware. The two primary low-level languages that accomplish this are CUDA and OpenCL. The former requires installation of the proprietary NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit and is only applicable on NVIDIA GPUs. The latter is both comp...