Re: [boost] GSoC SIMD project

Subject: Re: [boost] GSoC SIMD project
From: Antoine de Maricourt (antoine.de-maricourt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-28 18:19:05

>
> Source is at <http://github.com/MetaScale/nt2/> in include/nt2/sdk/simd
> but it's not quite user-friendly yet (no docs etc.).
>
> Announcements will be made when docs and tutorials are available. Some
> good tutorials will be made at Boostcon ;).
>

That's great.

I have been working for two or three months now on a low level core 
library, but with possibly different goals. I was not that much 
interested into developping a comprehensive math library, but mostly 
into being able to target GPUs.

I came out with proto being used as a front end and driving a back end 
that generates GPU specific source code (OpenCL, or vendor specific 
langage such as AMD CAL IL, or even CPU instructions using SSE Intel 
intrinsics for instance). The generated code is then compiled again and 
run inside GPU runtime environment. However, this is probably very 
simple minded compared to NT2, and given the time I spent on it.

So, is NT2 able to target GPU? and to take into acount GPU's programing 
model?

Best regards,

        Antoine.