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Re:AMD's master plan to topple Intel - Back to the top on a ... by sigil on Saturday July 09, 2011 @03:11AM (#2745225)
> But if AMD were to introduce something purpose-built (eg, with a Matlab-like syntax), then that might compel devs who aren't assembly or GPU gurus to develop against this.

Does anyone know if it's possible to program GPUs today without using a new, special purpose programming language? That would be the killer app for GPUs.

I see your point about most languages not admitting auto-vectorization. But couldn't you take a compilable functional language like Gambit Scheme, Clojure, or Haskell and emit GPU code for constructs like map and fold on numeric vector types?

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Re:AMD's master plan to topple Intel - Back to the top on a ... by eru on Sunday July 10, 2011 @01:11PM (#2748083)
> Does anyone know if it's possible to program GPUs today without using a new, special purpose programming language? That would be the killer app for GPUs.

Haskell has an embedded domain specific language for it. (It's probably a monad.)

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Re:AMD's master plan to topple Intel - Back to the top on a ... by sigil on Sunday July 10, 2011 @01:27PM (#2748118)
Hmm. Are you referring to this?

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/acc-cuda.pdf

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