On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 08:24:09 UTC, bioinfornatics wrote:
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 09:33:05 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
Hi all,
I'm happy to announce that the dcompute modifications to LDC
are now in the master branch of LDC. The dcompute extensions
require LLVM 3.9.1 or greater for NVPTX/CUDA and my fork[1] of
LLVM for SPIRV.
Someone (sorry I've forgotten who!) at dconf said they'd make
a docker image of the dependencies (ldc llvm), if you're
reading please let me know! Or if someone else wants to do it
thats good too.
I'm still quite busy until July (honours thesis), but if
anyone wanting to contribute to either the runtime stuff
[2](all D), LDC [3] or LLVM [1](mostly C++) I'm happy to
answer any questions, providing testing and performance
feedback on diverse systems is also appreciated. Feel free to
drop a line at https://gitter.im/libmir/public
[1]: https://github.com/thewilsonator/llvm/tree/compute
[2]: https://github.com/libmir/dcompute
[3]: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc
Hi,
I would like to know :
- what we can do with the library name "dcompute" ?
The library enables you to launch kernels written with the
accompanying complier extensions (the focus of this
announcement). It also provides the intrinsics to enable writing
the kernels.
Does this means that I can wrote In Dlang a piece of code and
execute it on the GPU ?
Yes, with some restrictions: recursion is prohibited, as are
classes exceptions, the keyword 'synchronized' global variables
(for now) and probably some others that I'm forgetting.
- where can I find some example ?
There are some examples on the wiki
(https://github.com/libmir/dcompute/wiki), although they are
likely incomplete and slightly out of date. I will be updating
and greatly improving them as development progresses (continuing
about halfway through July).
If you have any questions feel free to ask them on
https://gitter.im/libmir/public.
