Wow, I did not know about this. We certainly should leverage this. The API looks easy to call too from C, from the examples on their github page, and that is good news for us.
-viral On Saturday, November 15, 2014 5:22:17 AM UTC+5:30, Zahirul ALAM wrote: > > thanks. I have been using Julia for five months or so. I have not used the > ccall function ever. I will try it out as soon as I am done my current > project. > > On Friday, 14 November 2014 18:29:09 UTC-5, Tony Kelman wrote: >> >> I had the same response, great that they open-sourced the library, and >> wrapping it in a Julia package would be interesting and not that hard to >> do. It just needs someone to put a little bit of time into it. How long >> have you been using Julia? Try compiling the arrayfire library and writing >> a few ccall's into it from Julia, it should be a pretty direct translation >> of their C API. >> >> >> On Friday, November 14, 2014 2:59:01 PM UTC-8, Zahirul ALAM wrote: >>> >>> Arrayfire has a large library for GPU computing. They have decided to >>> make their codes open source. I am hoping that someone much more able than >>> me will write some sort of wrapper to use the Arrayfire library in Julia. >>> >>> Here is the github link: https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire >>> >>>
