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Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by capableweb on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:49AM (#30230955)
Website: https://www.tornadovm.org/

Best description of what it is and why it's interesting:

> What can TornadoVM do?

> TornadoVM accelerates parts of your Java applications on heterogeneous hardware devices such as multicore CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs.

> TornadoVM primarily supports Java. However, with the integration with GraalVM you can call your TornadoVM-compatible Java code through other programming languages supported by GraalVM's polyglot runtime (e.g., Python, R, Ruby, Javascript, Node.js, etc).

> Automatic code generation of OpenCL and Nvidia PTX, achieving portability across multi-core CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs.

Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by atdrummond on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:26AM (#30246973)
We are currently implementing Tornado on a Clojure + Graal install. Even with our partial, non-optimised version, we are seeing a speed-up greater than an order of magnitude. I presently estimate an infrastructure savings of nearly 70% versus our current Azure spend. I will post a postmortem once completed if it would be of interest.
Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by fulafel on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @01:21AM (#30255471)
What type of hardware are you using? As the README advertises possibilities for multicore CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs.
Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by brabel on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:18PM (#30247867)
That would be really great if you could write more about that! Sounds incredible.
Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by atdrummond on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:24PM (#30247960)
Will do. Any recommendations on where I should post our findings? I don't have any personal blogs.
Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by brabel on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @05:21PM (#30265679)
Some people write GitHub gists as that's the simplest possible way to do it, probably (or the equivalent on BitBucket/GitLab etc) and it's pretty decent with good support for code samples.

Otherwise, if you want to start a real blog, I recommend a static site generator[1] and one of the free services like Netlify, GitHub Pages or Cloudflare (which has free, cool domains like your-name.pages.dev).

[1] https://jamstack.org/generators/

Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by twh270 on Monday February 07, 2022 @06:20PM (#30252910)
Medium is dead simple. Create an account and click the icon to write an article. Publish and share.
Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by sorokod on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @04:01PM (#30264638)
Sure it will be a postmortem and not a postpartum?
Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by brrrrrm on Sunday February 06, 2022 @09:48AM (#30232954)
Any benchmarks?
Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by jfumero on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:05PM (#30235099)
Re:TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous progra... by RyanHamilton on Sunday February 06, 2022 @11:29AM (#30234002)