Re: [boost] Interest in a GPU computing library

Subject: Re: [boost] Interest in a GPU computing library
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-18 16:05:33

On 9/18/2012 11:42 AM, Manjunath Kudlur wrote:
>>
>>> With CUDA, you'd actually have hit the problem that the Proto functions
>>> are not marked __device__, but with OpenCL it doesn't matter.
>>
>> Mathias, Could you say more about what is needed to make Proto
>> CUDA-friendly? I'm not familiar with CUDA.
> 
> The thing needed to make Proto more CUDA-friendly is the same thing that is
> needed to make it AMP-friendly, in case you are familiar with C++ AMP [1].
> Basically, you have to intrusively annotate every Proto function with the
> "__host__ __device__" annotation (restrict(x86, amp) in the case of C++
> AMP).

*Every* function in Proto? Or the just ones that build Proto
expressions? Or evaluate them? Or some other subset?

There's precedent for this. Someone submitted a patch adding
BOOST_FORCEINLINE to the important functions that need to be inlined for
optimal evaluation performance. Perhaps this would be a good place to
start for adding something like a BOOST_PROTO_GPU_ENABLED macro. I would
be perfectly willing to accept a patch. Would anybody care to submit one?

-- 
Eric Niebler
BoostPro Computing
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