Choosing a Language for GPU Processing

Asked Dec 18 '12 at 21:59

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I'm hoping to use Java to use GPUs in order to accelerate computation. I've heard CUDA has Java bindings, but I'm wondering if OpenCL does too? Overall I'm pretty confused about which devices are supported by which, and which is best to use with Java.

Basically, I'm trying to find something that is easily implemented in Java, and can support the most number of GPUs (NVIDIA, ATI, etc). Does anyone have a suggestion of what I should look into to achieve this? Thanks!

asked Dec 18 '12 at 21:59

K. Barresi

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Why do you want to use Java? – Cameron Dec 18 '12 at 22:01
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For portability. I want it to be run on Windows, Linux, OSX, and hopefully embedded devices too – K. Barresi Dec 18 '12 at 22:04
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jocl. look at example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13352237/jmonkey-optimization-similar-to-java3ds kernel is universal – huseyin tugrul buyukisik Dec 18 '12 at 22:15
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2633483/best-approach-for-gpgpu-cuda-opencl-in-java – Eugene Dec 18 '12 at 22:30
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arrayfire is going to support all opencl capable devices soon (beta is going to be out later this week). But it is not Java. I don't think Java will be as portable as you think for GPGPU implementations. – Pavan Yalamanchili Dec 19 '12 at 04:22

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