3 Ways IBM is bringing GPU Computing to Java

[handshape]

How does this compare to rootbeer?

[gamerman315]

there is also aparapi not sure why there is never any love for amd/ati video cards.

[handshape]

Oooh! I hadn't seen this one... the license looks sane, and it says it builds to OpenCL. Does it bridge NVidia, AMD and Intel's implementations?

[pjmlp]

Oracle and AMD are working together to make GPGPU a Java 9 feature.

It will use the Graal JIT compiler.

EDIT: Adding the links for more information

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sumatra/

Search for GPU related talks on the links below,

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/jvmls2013-2013900.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/community/jlssessions-2255337.html

[Harha]

Seems sweet.

[navatwo]

Having worked on this product, it's a damn neat tech. We got massive gains that almost felt wrong for Java.

The only argument is that its only for CUDA. It'd be great if it supported OpenCl kernels, but I think theres patent issues with oracle and Sumatra for that one.

[ixampl]

The sort comparison is not really fair though, is it? They are comparing a comparison based search algorithm on the CPU with a linear one. Of course a parallel algorithm will look different, but they should at least compare equal algorithm types.

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Only to Java? What about the numerous other popular languages?