D GPGPU

[John Colvin]

On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 08:31:28 UTC, Russel Winder 
wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 00:53 +0100, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> […]
>> Java itelf is a very basic language to allow this to be 
>> possible.  But
>> the library implementation denies this, and I don't see native 
>> support
>> beyond JNI.
>
> JNA
>
> But your core point as I infer it is valid. Running on the JVM 
> it is
> best not to have to use native code libraries. I think the NAG 
> Java
> adaptor to it's Fortran and C++ libraries will not gain any 
> traction.
>
> The new interest is getting support for the heterogeneous 
> processors on
> the horizon. In threads elsewhere we started debating GPGPU 
> support in D
> exactly because it will be a necessity in future processors. 
> Java has
> two plays in this game already.

Did you ever get around to making a wiki page etc. as discussed 
in the last thread about D GPGPU? I've been working on a fork of 
cl4d that's shaping up ok (I'm thinking of publishing to 
code.dlang.org once I've written a test-suite), but i'm 
relatively inexperienced with openCL.