[Haskell-cafe] (Off-topic) CUDA

[Andrew Coppin]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> Thursday, February 5, 2009, 11:10:42 AM, you wrote:
>
>   
>> Does anybody know how to make this stuff actually work?
>>     
>
> nvidia has cuda site where you can download sdk. afair, dr dobbs
> journal has (online) series of arcticles which describes how to
> program it step-by-step
>   

OK. It's just that I downloaded a CUDA-enabled program, and it's not 
using CUDA, and I can't figure out why. :-(

>> (Also... Haskell on the GPU. It's been talked about for years, but will
>> it ever actually happen?)
>>     
>
> gpu is just set of simd-like instructions. so the reason why you will
> never see haskell on gpu is the same as why you will never see it
> implemented via simd instructions :D
>   

Heh, fair enough.