LELegNeato·Jul 13, 2024
https://github.com/charles-r-earp/krnl, and more broadly https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu.
In Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computationEmbarkStudios
rust-gpu
Rust2020–2024
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rust-gpu
🐉 Making Rust a first-class language and ecosystem for GPU shaders 🚧
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| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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3 sourcesRust is already available for GPU, kind of: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu
I don't think it's production ready though and I have no idea if this library should work on this.
In Fast Fourier Transform in RustS̶o̶u̶n̶d̶s̶ ̶c̶o̶o̶l̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶r̶e̶q̶u̶i̶r̶e̶s̶ ̶y̶e̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶l̶a̶n̶g̶u̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶r̶n̶[0]. As someone who only has limited knowledge in this space, could someone tell me how comparable is the compute functionality of rust-gpu[1], where I can just write rust?
[0] https://github.com/Hugobros3/shady#language-syntax
[1] https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu
Edit: No new language to learn required, this was about IR
In Vcc – The Vulkan Clang Compiler