Unit of "speed" in the platform.getSpeed()

[Carl Benzer]

What is the meaning or unit of "speed" in the platform.getSpeed() output?

For a Quadro K5000 I get the following output:

platform = Platform.getPlatformByName('CUDA')
print "Platform: ", platform.getName()
print "Speed: ", platform.getSpeed()
print "Supports double: ", platform.supportsDoublePrecision()

Platform: CUDA
Speed: 100.0
Supports double: True

Looking at the K5000 specifications I couldn't find anything that somewhere near 100.

Thanks
Carl

[Peter Eastman]

It's a completely arbitrary number. It's just used for selecting the fastest available platform, so the only real significance is that the CUDA platform returns a larger value than the Reference platform.

Peter

[Carl Benzer]

Thanks for the clarification.