One of the questions people commonly ask us is: When will Jacket support LAPACK features such as eigenvalue decomposition, matrix inverse, system solvers, etc.? The reason this question is so popular is that people recognize that these kinds of problems are well-suited for the GPU and will end up giving great performance boosts for Jacket users. We are looking forward to delivering these functions in Jacket. Jacket is currently built on top of CUDA. For reasons why we like CUDA, see our previous blog post about OpenCL. While NVIDIA is busy building from CUDA from the ground up, we are busy building Jacket from the top (MATLAB) down. NVIDIA is working hard to promote and develop LAPACK libraries directly into …