# HG changeset patch
# User Olivier Delalleau <delallea@iro>
# Date 1284315263 14400
# Node ID 319de699fb67754e829037d00f1622c39803affb
# Parent  a80b296eb0df252573e45b287c046af0d527e452
dataset: Reply to GPU question

diff -r a80b296eb0df -r 319de699fb67 doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt
--- a/doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt	Sun Sep 12 10:54:09 2010 -0400
+++ b/doc/v2_planning/dataset.txt	Sun Sep 12 14:14:23 2010 -0400
@@ -305,7 +305,8 @@
 interface as the learner ( or actually a subset of the interface .. ).
 I hope people decide to do this.
 
-
+Support for shared variables
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 RP asks: What is the status of having the dataset support copying data 
 on the GPU ( by storing data in shared variables) ? Have you decided to 
@@ -315,3 +316,7 @@
 more towards running things on GPU. If the dataset object does not support
 this feature we will need to find hacks around it ..
 
+OD: I have like zero experience with GPU so hopefully someone else can answer
+this. But the way I see it, hopefully it could work by having some dataset
+object that would take care of storing its input data into a shared variable.
+