<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Not CUDA, but GLSL, running a 4 million cell game of life at > 60 FPS in XMLisp on a Mac:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://code.google.com/p/xmlisp/source/browse/trunk/XMLisp/sources/XLUI/examples/3D/GLSL-Conway.lisp">http://code.google.com/p/xmlisp/source/browse/trunk/XMLisp/sources/XLUI/examples/3D/GLSL-Conway.lisp</a></div><div><br></div><div>This is of course a mix of Lisp and shader code. It would be possible to create a Lisp to GLSL shader compiler and then have the GLSL compiler do the rest. I don't think this would be a great idea, however. Somewhat lengthy explanation required but left off...</div><div><br></div><div>Alex</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Apr 4, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Mirko Vukovic wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Tamas Papp <tkpapp@...> writes:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hi everyone,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am about to buy a new server for number crunching, and I would like to <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">keep my options open about GPU/CUDA based computations. The most <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">intensively parallelizable thing that I am doing is particle filtering, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and currently that works fine (and is really fast) in a multi-core CPU <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">with SBCL, but I keep hearing wonderful things about GPUs from people, <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and I was wondering if I could make use of them but still program in CL.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">... stuff deleted<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tamas<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>Hi Tamas,<br><br>Did you make any progress in your GPU adventures? I just got a machine with a<br>tesla GPU. I'd like to run some Monte Carlo simulations on it.<br><br>Mirko<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>pro mailing list<br><a href="mailto:pro@common-lisp.net">pro@common-lisp.net</a><br>http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pro<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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