Is it possible to use the computational power of the GPU in Elixir

Eiji · October 31, 2016, 9:38am

I did not do this in any language, but I know that some projects use GPU for certain algorithms. Is it possible in Elixir?

gon782 · October 31, 2016, 9:43am

There’s this presentation about interfacing with CUDA from Erlang. For an example of how to set up a CNode that you can talk to in order to execute stuff there’s this repository showing how to do it in Elixir.

Eiji · October 31, 2016, 9:46am

Excellent, thank you very much!

OvermindDL1 · October 31, 2016, 2:54pm

Via a port is what I’d do, and personally I’d use OpenCL so it actually works on more hardware (can even fallback to the CPU if no GPU is available for it if you want).

gregvaughn · October 31, 2016, 2:57pm

This is not Elixir-specific and I don’t have experience with it, but there’s an entire section in the book “Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks” on GPU programming in general.

sashaafm · October 31, 2016, 6:44pm

I’ve also heard this link is very good to learn about GPU programming: http://courses.cms.caltech.edu/cs179/