Calling D from Ruby for GPU computing
Michael via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 4 18:15:19 PDT 2017
On Saturday, 29 July 2017 at 06:54:47 UTC, Prasun Anand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote a Linear Mixed Model tool for Genome Wide Association
> Studies(GWAS) called
> [faster_lmm_d](https://github.com/prasunanand/faster_lmm_d). It
> is built on LDC
> and is faster than its Python alternative. Also, its the only
> GWAS tool with a GPU
> backend.
>
> I am interested in porting ` faster_lmm_d` to Ruby. Though, it
> is still a work in progress, I have written a blog about my
> findings.
>
> Blog:
> http://www.prasunanand.com/gpu-computing/2017/07/25/gsoc17-calling-d-from-ruby-for-gpu-computing.html
>
> I would love to hear your feedback.
>
> Regards,
> Prasun
>
> [Previously posted on LDC thread:
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/rzrawenyssbiidsgtohx@forum.dlang.org]
I don't know much about your work but it sounds like an
interesting application for D. How easy was it interfacing with
cuda? Was it just cuda you targeted or would it also work with
OpenCL? What made you choose D over going straight to C to work
directly with cuda?
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