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Ignus
Journeyman III

C++ compiler for the GPU - Minotaurus

Hello everyone!

I know this is not the place for ads, but I'd like to show the stuff, that we have been working on for some time now, which is a way to be able to write programs for the GPU through C++.
It's called Minotaurus, a compiler extension, which can make certain C++ code parts run on the GPU. It is currently very much in it's infancy, however it is usable to some extents.

It works through templates and uses C++0x.

A demo video is available on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31xKQ_9MN_k

Currently it is not public yet, but it's yet to be decided.

I'm actually just curious whether you see any fantasy in it, so opinions are much welcomed.

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Greets,

I.

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Meteorhead
Challenger

Seems really cool. Can you say anything about how is this different than C++ AMP?

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interesting. any example how that C++ code which is then compiled for GPU looks?

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Ignus
Journeyman III

Hi!

An excerpt code from the video demo is attached below.

We decided to put our webcompiler prototype out for the public, so you can have a look at it here (uname is "webcompiler", passwd is "23gd9j08o34"):

http://robotlab.itk.ppke.hu/~webcompiler/

But don't complain if it doesn't work for you 🙂

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Greets,

I.

//... mino::mino_for("Julia::update():julia_matrix", [XX,YY,tick, shift, speed,x1,y1,x2,y2, kx, ky,step,anim,mx1, mx2, my1, my2] (int i, float * julia_matrix) { int y = i / XX; int x = i - y * XX; float in = tick/speed+shift-(x+y)/400.0f; float jx=kx+anim*sin(in/11.0f)*(mx2-mx1)*0.6f; // where is the Julia set reference point float jy=ky+anim*cos(in/10.0f)*(my2-my1)*0.6f; float xx=x1+x/float(XX/(x2-x1)); // which pixel float yy=y1+y/float(YY/(y2-y1)); complex<float> c(jx, jy); complex<float> z(xx, yy); int k=0; do{ z = z*z + c; k++; }while (real(z)*real(z)+imag(z)*imag(z) < 4.0f && k < step*256.0f) ; julia_matrix[y * XX + x] = k; } , XX * YY, julia_matrix); mino::array_download(julia_matrix); //...

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Well, it's quite similar. But here are some points:

C++ AMP uses DirectCompute, Minotaurus uses OpenCL.

Currently, C++ AMP is implemented in MS compiler, Minotaurus uses GCC+LLVM.

Minotaurus currently doesn't have a frozen API.

Actually, the first working prototype of Minotaurus has been completed about one year ago (look at the related videos).

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Greets,

I.

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