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One of the things that the 1.5 release notes does not mention is the huge amount of progress on the Julia GPU compiler. This doesn't get included in the languag
by ViralBShah 6y ago
One of the things that the 1.5 release notes does not mention is the huge amount of progress on the Julia GPU compiler. This doesn't get included in the language release notes because the GPU compilation capabilities are provided as a separate package in CUDA.jl.
It was great to see so many JuliaCon talks last week using these GPU capabilities.
- wadkar 6y agoWait, does that mean GPU support includes NVIDIA only or will it also include (hopefully in future) ATI as well?
- KenoFischer 6y agoNVIDIA is the most mature, but AMD and Intel are in development
- ChrisRackauckas 6y agoAMD is quite good already. The ROCm stuff works quite well.
- eigenspace 6y agoUnfortunately though, they're dragging their feet on supporting their current generation of consumer grade GPUs. It seems currently, they're not going to support compute on consumer grade gaming GPUs and instead force people to use enterprise grade ones if they want ROCm which is terrible. For reference, the maintainer of AMDGPU.jl can't upgrade to a new AMD GPU or he won't be able to use ROCm. https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887 https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887
- ezluckyfree 6y agoThe AMDGPU.jl people get a lot their funding from DARPA, as the US government apparently purchased a supercomputer with AMD GPUs.