Cuda for C++

[Robert Jacques]

On Fri, 29 May 2009 07:33:55 -0400, Denis Koroskin <2korden at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 29 May 2009 15:28:00 +0400, Trass3r <mrmocool at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> bearophile schrieb:
>>> "Thrust is a CUDA library of parallel algorithms with an interface
>>> resembling the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). Thrust provides a
>>> flexible high-level interface for GPU programming":
>>> http://code.google.com/p/thrust/
>>>  Something like this (but OpenCL) for D sounds quite interesting.
>>>
>>
>> Hopefully OpenCL's runtime will be compatible to D's:
>>
>> Chris R Miller wrote (in Feb):
>>  > I looked into writing CUDA with D a while back.  The problem is that
>> the
>>  > CUDA C runtime and the D runtime are 100% incompatible.
>>
>>
>> I don't have any new information about the topic though. Maybe it works
>> with druntime.
>
> Yeah, OpenCL looks interesting. For example, they annotate variables  
> with either __global, __local or __private attributes, that are very  
> close to D2 shared/TLS/unique.

Well, that's not quite right,
global : shared, accessible by the host
local  : restricted to a 'work-group', not accessible by the host
private: value-types on the function's stack