Introduction

[Kirk Pepperdine]

AFAIK, the effort is being lead by Intel. I think there has been some motion there but I’ve not been following so…

I know of at least one project using Java/GPU integration for processing data. The only project I’ve been on was a graphics/video rendering effort so GPU was a natural fit there.

— Kirk

> On Aug 23, 2017, at 10:40 PM, Phillip Rhodes <motley.crue.fan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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