Re: [Caml-list] OCaml and GPUs

["Sashan Govender" <sashang@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 12:42:35 PM, Guillaume Hennequin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if there has been any effort so far in interfacing OCaml
> with GPU programming solutions like AMD Stream, or OpenCL.
> I'm only aware of Daml (CUDA bindings).
> 
> I wrote some pieces of AMD Brook bindings a while ago to do very basic
> read/write operations on GPU, plus some kernel calls.

Not aware of any other bindings. I think I got daml to a stage similar to your 
Brook bindings where you could allocate a floating point array in the gpu and 
then maybe do something with that array. I can't really remember. It's been a 
while since I looked at it.

> I don't have much time to invest in this unfortunately.
> With OpenCL's ability to compile kernels at runtime, bindings for Ocaml
> could even offer the nice possibility to write the kernels in .ml files as
> strings, which would save a lot of wrappers around kernel-only C files.
> 

I would have expected CUDA to have a similar ability but haven't checked.