Futhark – A small programming language that compiles to efficient GPU code

Re:Futhark – A small programming language that compiles to e... by avmich on Sunday March 26, 2017 @01:53AM (#13959428)

Looks very interesting :) but I can't quite find out what is going on on the GPU. What GPU operations are executed for a sample program which contains various (scalar, vector, applying to different sizes and shapes etc.) operators?

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Re:Futhark – A small programming language that compiles to e... by Athas on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:34AM (#13959539)

Any array combinator (most importantly map, scan, reduce, and filter) are executed on the GPU (or whatever parallel execution platform is used).

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Re:Futhark – A small programming language that compiles to e... by ivanceras on Sunday March 26, 2017 @10:08AM (#13960848)

What is the minimum OpenCL version? I'm evaluatimg if this could be a viable experimentation for parallelizing task which uses amazon GPU compute which are mostly nvidia GPU.

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Re:Futhark – A small programming language that compiles to e... by Athas on Sunday March 26, 2017 @10:11AM (#13960854)

Somewhere around OpenCL 1.1 and 1.2. It works fine on NVIDIA GPUs - they are our main test platform.

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