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KernelAbstractions.jl
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JuliaGPU / KernelAbstractions.jl

KernelAbstractions.jl

Heterogeneous programming in Julia

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Heterogeneous programming in Julia

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Observed mentions: 2020-05-10 04:56:32 UTC to 2025-09-05 13:34:02 UTC.

012342020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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What Hacker News says

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eigenspace·Jun 20, 2021
Julia has excellent CUDA support[1], I have no idea why nvidia doesn't promote it more. It's fast, flexible and very featureful. There was a recent thread about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27496679 The AMD [2] and Intel [3] support is younger, but developing quickly. There's also [4] for a unified API that works across different GPU vendors to avoid lockin [1] https://cuda.juliagpu.org/dev/ [2] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/AMDGPU.jl [3] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/oneAPI.jl [4] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/KernelAbstractions.jl
In Is Julia Really Fast?
jpsamaroo·Jun 14, 2021
For kernel programming, https://github.com/JuliaGPU/KernelAbstractions.jl (shortened to KA) is what the JuliaGPU team has been developing as a unified programming interface for GPUs of any flavor. It's not significantly different from the (basically identical) interfaces exposed by CUDA.jl and AMDGPU.jl, so it's easy to transition to. I think the event system in KA is also far superior to CUDA's native synchronization system, since it allows one to easily express graphs of dependencies between kernels and data transfers.
In Cuda.jl v3.3: union types, debug info, graph APIs

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