Has anyone used D with Nvidia's Cuda?

ponce via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Apr 4 15:03:03 PDT 2015


On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 17:21:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/4/2015 3:45 AM, weaselcat wrote:
>> I really think you're barking up the wrong tree here - cuda is 
>> a closed
>> proprietary solution only implemented by one vendor 
>> effectively cutting off
>> anyone that doesn't work with nvidia hardware.
>
> That's right. On the other hand,
>
> 1. Nvidia hardware is pervasive, and CUDA has been around for 
> many years. I doubt it is going away anytime soon.
>
> 2. It is little effort on our part to support it.
>
> 3. We'd have some co-marketing opportunities with Nvidia if we 
> support it.
>

If NVIDIA wants full support for NPP, cuBLAS, and the myriad of 
libraries depending on the Runtime API then it's more effort.


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