"Thrust is a CUDA library of parallel algorithms with an interface resembling the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). Thrust provides a flexible high-level interface for GPU programming":
http://code.google.com/p/thrust/

Something like this (but OpenCL) for D sounds quite interesting.

Bye,
bearophile

bearophile schrieb:
> "Thrust is a CUDA library of parallel algorithms with an interface resembling the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). Thrust provides a flexible high-level interface for GPU programming":
> http://code.google.com/p/thrust/
> 
> Something like this (but OpenCL) for D sounds quite interesting.
> 

Hopefully OpenCL's runtime will be compatible to D's:

Chris R Miller wrote (in Feb):
> I looked into writing CUDA with D a while back.  The problem is that the
> CUDA C runtime and the D runtime are 100% incompatible.


I don't have any new information about the topic though. Maybe it works with druntime.

On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:28:00 +0400, Trass3r <mrmocool@gmx.de> wrote:

> bearophile schrieb:
>> "Thrust is a CUDA library of parallel algorithms with an interface
>> resembling the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). Thrust provides a
>> flexible high-level interface for GPU programming":
>> http://code.google.com/p/thrust/
>>  Something like this (but OpenCL) for D sounds quite interesting.
>>
>
> Hopefully OpenCL's runtime will be compatible to D's:
>
> Chris R Miller wrote (in Feb):
>  > I looked into writing CUDA with D a while back.  The problem is that
> the
>  > CUDA C runtime and the D runtime are 100% incompatible.
>
>
> I don't have any new information about the topic though. Maybe it works with druntime.

Yeah, OpenCL looks interesting. For example, they annotate variables with either __global, __local or __private attributes, that are very close to D2 shared/TLS/unique.

On Fri, 29 May 2009 07:28:00 -0400, Trass3r <mrmocool@gmx.de> wrote:

> bearophile schrieb:
>> "Thrust is a CUDA library of parallel algorithms with an interface resembling the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). Thrust provides a flexible high-level interface for GPU programming":
>> http://code.google.com/p/thrust/
>>  Something like this (but OpenCL) for D sounds quite interesting.
>>
>
> Hopefully OpenCL's runtime will be compatible to D's:
>
> Chris R Miller wrote (in Feb):
>  > I looked into writing CUDA with D a while back.  The problem is that the
>  > CUDA C runtime and the D runtime are 100% incompatible.
>
>
> I don't have any new information about the topic though. Maybe it works with druntime.

Umm... I've gotten D's and CUDA's runtime to play nice together.

Trass3r wrote:
> bearophile schrieb:
>> "Thrust is a CUDA library of parallel algorithms with an interface resembling the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). Thrust provides a flexible high-level interface for GPU programming":
>> http://code.google.com/p/thrust/
>>
>> Something like this (but OpenCL) for D sounds quite interesting.
>>
> 
> Hopefully OpenCL's runtime will be compatible to D's:
> 
> Chris R Miller wrote (in Feb):
>  > I looked into writing CUDA with D a while back.  The problem is that the
>  > CUDA C runtime and the D runtime are 100% incompatible.
> 
> 
> I don't have any new information about the topic though. Maybe it works with druntime.

Isn't there a dcuda project at team0xf? Not sure what state it's in, though.

I'd say OpenCL/DirectX Compute Shaders are the future... CUDA is only supported on NVIDIA, and as a proud ATI user, I must take exception.

Trass3r wrote:
> I don't have any new information about the topic though.

No problem: http://www.seriouswheels.com/1970-1979/1970-Plymouth-Hemi-Cuda-Orange-FA.htm

On Fri, 29 May 2009 07:33:55 -0400, Denis Koroskin <2korden@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:28:00 +0400, Trass3r <mrmocool@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> bearophile schrieb:
>>> "Thrust is a CUDA library of parallel algorithms with an interface
>>> resembling the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). Thrust provides a
>>> flexible high-level interface for GPU programming":
>>> http://code.google.com/p/thrust/
>>>  Something like this (but OpenCL) for D sounds quite interesting.
>>>
>>
>> Hopefully OpenCL's runtime will be compatible to D's:
>>
>> Chris R Miller wrote (in Feb):
>>  > I looked into writing CUDA with D a while back.  The problem is that
>> the
>>  > CUDA C runtime and the D runtime are 100% incompatible.
>>
>>
>> I don't have any new information about the topic though. Maybe it works
>> with druntime.
>
> Yeah, OpenCL looks interesting. For example, they annotate variables with either __global, __local or __private attributes, that are very close to D2 shared/TLS/unique.

Well, that's not quite right,
global : shared, accessible by the host
local  : restricted to a 'work-group', not accessible by the host
private: value-types on the function's stack