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[Phillip Rhodes]

Oh yeah, definitely.  I'm just thinking in terms of how Oracle /
whoever don't seem interested in putting much (or any?) effort into
Sumatra right now.  So wondering if maybe getting to Panama will at
least partially obviate the need.

That said, having a "native" GPU integration story would definitely be
nice.  I'm just starting to wonder if we'll ever get it.  :-(


Phil
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On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Kirk Pepperdine
<kirk.pepperdine at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> I don’t really know enough about Sumatra to answer the question but my I can’t see why we’d not want a stable API to access the GPU from Java.
>
> Kind regards,
> Kirk
>
>> On Aug 23, 2017, at 10:13 PM, Phillip Rhodes <motley.crue.fan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Would Project Panama obviate the need for "native" Java/GPU
>> integration?  My understanding is it's supposed to give us a "better
>> FFI" which might make it nice enough to just integrate OpenCL or CUDA
>> directly.   Or do we still need something
>> like Sumatra to get really useful GPU interaction in Java?
>>
>>
>> Phil
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>> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Kirk Pepperdine
>> <kirk.pepperdine at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There is some work being done on GPU/Java integration. I think it’s being done by some of the Intel guys. I haven’t been following all that closely so unfortunately that is all I can say without doing some digging. But if I were to dig I’d start with last years JavaONE. IIRC someone had a GPU in the schedule.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Kirk Pepperdine
>>>
>>>> On Aug 23, 2017, at 9:27 PM, Dr Heinz M. Kabutz <heinz at javaspecialists.eu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't think Sumatra is very active at the moment :)
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Heinz
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> My name is Navdeep Singh. I am a student doing my research in
>>>>> High-performance Computing. I am developing a framework for HPC using Java.
>>>>> I am not an expert. my programming skills are of moderate level. I hope
>>>>> here I will get something new to learn.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will be glad if someone can guide me setting up development environment
>>>>> for sumatra, and introduce me to the development approach.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks !!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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