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[–]kamatsu 4 points5 points  (5 children)

Some of those project proposals you evaluated must be quite old.

CUDA backend for DPH seems like a terrible idea.

[–]gwern[S] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Yes, that one was first proposed 6 years ago, according to the bug report timestamp. But two years ago, you thought it was "unnecessary", not "terrible". What's changed?

[–]kamatsu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, I don't remember writing that post at all. But, it's even more of a bad idea now, because Accelerate is a much more viable option now, and it would be a massive duplication of work to write such a backend for DPH.

[–]sideEffffECt 0 points1 point  (2 children)

DPH supports nested data parallelism, Accelerate does not, afaik

why would it be terrible to have CUDA backed NDP framework?

[–]kamatsu 0 points1 point  (1 child)

NDP support is current work for Accelerate. We hope to have it available in the not-too-distant future.

[–]sideEffffECt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

very well then :)