<s>
GPULib	B-Library
is	O
discontinued	O
and	O
unsupported	O
software	O
library	O
developed	O
by	O
Tech-X	O
Corporation	O
for	O
accelerating	O
general-purpose	O
scientific	O
computations	O
from	O
within	O
the	O
Interactive	B-Language
Data	I-Language
Language	I-Language
(	O
IDL	B-Language
)	O
using	O
Nvidia	O
's	O
CUDA	B-Architecture
platform	I-Architecture
for	O
programming	O
its	O
graphics	B-Architecture
processing	I-Architecture
units	I-Architecture
(	O
GPUs	B-Architecture
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GPULib	B-Library
provides	O
basic	O
arithmetic	O
,	O
array	O
indexing	O
,	O
special	O
functions	O
,	O
Fast	O
Fourier	O
Transforms	O
(	O
FFT	O
)	O
,	O
interpolation	O
,	O
BLAS	B-Application
matrix	O
operations	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
LAPACK	B-Application
routines	O
provided	O
by	O
MAGMA	O
,	O
and	O
some	O
image	O
processing	O
operations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
numeric	O
data	O
types	O
provided	O
by	O
IDL	B-Language
are	O
supported	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GPULib	B-Library
is	O
used	O
in	O
medical	O
imaging	O
,	O
optics	O
,	O
astronomy	O
,	O
earth	O
science	O
,	O
remote	O
sensing	O
,	O
and	O
other	O
scientific	O
areas	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
CUDA	B-Architecture
enabled	O
GPU	B-Architecture
is	O
currently	O
required	O
to	O
use	O
this	O
library	O
,	O
although	O
there	O
is	O
an	O
OpenCL	B-Application
prototype	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GPULib	B-Library
provides	O
more	O
capabilities	O
depending	O
on	O
the	O
capability	O
of	O
the	O
graphics	B-Architecture
processing	I-Architecture
unit	I-Architecture
(	O
GPU	B-Architecture
)	O
being	O
used	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
double-precision	O
calculations	O
and	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
transfer	O
data	O
concurrently	O
with	O
computations	O
are	O
not	O
provided	O
by	O
all	O
GPUs	B-Architecture
,	O
but	O
GPULib	B-Library
supports	O
these	O
operations	O
on	O
GPUs	B-Architecture
which	O
are	O
capable	O
of	O
performing	O
them	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GPULib	B-Library
is	O
provided	O
in	O
the	O
form	O
of	O
a	O
Dynamically	O
Loadable	O
Module	O
(	O
DLM	O
)	O
along	O
with	O
IDL	B-Language
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Using	O
GPULib	B-Library
does	O
not	O
require	O
knowledge	O
of	O
C	B-Language
or	O
CUDA	B-Architecture
,	O
though	O
it	O
can	O
be	O
extended	O
if	O
the	O
user	O
is	O
knowledgeable	O
with	O
CUDA	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
GPULib	B-Library
previously	O
provided	O
bindings	O
for	O
other	O
languages	O
including	O
Matlab	O
,	O
Python	O
,	O
and	O
Java	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
GPULib	B-Library
API	O
documentation	O
is	O
available	O
online	O
.	O
</s>
