Haskell Arrays Accelerated with GPUs

Re:Haskell Arrays Accelerated with GPUs by jerf on Friday September 11, 2009 @11:21AM (#817491)

The Haskell community is fond of mistaking research papers (in PDF!) for documentation, it's quite likely you've found all there is. Just as they are also fond of mistaking a list of function names and type signatures for documentation. (On good days, they may deign to add a sentence about what the function does.)

(Haskell guys, I love ya, but you have some of the oddest blind spots sometimes.)

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Re:Haskell Arrays Accelerated with GPUs by esessoms on Friday September 11, 2009 @11:55AM (#817554)

It's too easy to tease, but I will try to resist.

But, seriously, they've been talking about this GPU work for upwards of a 1.5 years now. Usually we get something to play with, even if it's pretty badly broken (I'm thinking NDP here), so the lack of code here is pretty atypical. The accelerate link above is news to me, though, so that's helpful. Hope to see more soon!

* EDIT (to back up my 1.5 years claim):

earliest mention, May 15, 2008: http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/svh/Slides/may-...

Chak's own work, Jan 10, 2009: http://www.citeulike.org/user/iff/article/3872848 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/LCGK09.html

and, of course, accelerate ("reference implementation") was only released Aug 17, 2009: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate

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Re:Haskell Arrays Accelerated with GPUs by DannoHung on Friday September 11, 2009 @11:35AM (#817513)

I think it's because of overexposure to category theory. It gets to the point where they see a name, the see a type signature, they assume the developer isn't pathological, and figure out what they need.

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