Re: NVIDIA opens up CUDA compiler for other languages

[Adrian-Ken Rueegsegger <ken@codelabs.ch>]

Hi,

On 12/16/2011 08:05 AM, Dirk Craeynest wrote:
> Just read the following announcement:
> 
[snip]
> 
> The full announcement says the LLVM compiler infrastructure will be
> used as the vehicle for the public CUDA source code.  The main idea
> seems to be to allow others to use the technology (among others)
> with programming languages that NVIDIA is not pursuing themselves.
> 
> Interesting for Ada?

If I understood the article correctly this requires a working
LLVM-Frontend for Ada. I do not know what the status of the current
implementation [1] is but maybe somebody more knowledgeable about LLVM
with regards to Ada could comment on that and give their take?

Incidentally Reto Buerki and me have been working on an Ada-Binding for
CUDA. Those interested in using CUDA from Ada might want to check out
the project website [2] and the source repository [3].

The low-level thin-binding is complete and we added some abstractions on
top of that. Many ideas/goals were inspired by the excellent Python
binding pyCUDA [4]. We have not made a release yet since we are
currently working on the documentation. If you give CUDA/Ada a try we
would be happy if you would let us know what you think.

Cheers,
Adrian
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[1] - http://llvm.org/docs/GCCFEBuildInstrs.html#ada
[2] - http://www.codelabs.ch/cuda-ada/
[3] - http://git.codelabs.ch/?p=cuda-ada.git
[4] - http://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda