Hi Guys,
I have just discovered Fabric Engine a couple of days ago and had been reading on since then, it turns out to be taking pretty amazing approach to hyterogenous computing problem (i.e. simplifying multicore cpu+gpu programming) in a high-level fashion. Please watch this video for some detailed explanation _first_: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWjJE-6Ln24 Well, you currently have to got through quick sign-up procedure to get access details for Node.js or Python module, however I had been told by the guys that they are switching to AGPL license upon product launch next week! So don't get bullshit on me for pointing at a closed-source technology. The main site (fabric-engine.com) has browser-based demos and some details (the docs aren't currently public yet, but can be found here: http://documentation.testing.fabric-engine.com/latest/).
What does this have to do with PD?
I'm glad you asked! Basically FE appears to be internally dataflow paradigm which basically uses LLVM to split out and compile multithreaded code for CPU and GPU (using OpenCL) from it's own Kernel Language (KL) which is strongly typed kind-of-JavaScript. Have a look for yourself, but it seems to me that there is definitely a number of people on this list who would pick up on this!
Cheers,
Ilya
If you don't feel like listening about the background, start watching the presentation from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWjJE-6Ln24&feature=player_detailpage#t=2...
Please note, in this presentation the main subject is the FE browser plugin, but currently there are Node.js and Python interfaces available and more are to come (e.g. Ruby).
To me the main problem had been - what sort of abstraction is needed to efficiently utilise GPU and CPU cores and Fabric Engine appears to target exactly this.
I am quite surprised nobody picked this up yet, oh well .. :~(
On 6 March 2012 22:27, Ilya Dmitrichenko errordeveloper@gmail.com wrote:
If you don't feel like listening about the background, start watching the presentation from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWjJE-6Ln24&feature=player_detailpage#t=2...
Please note, in this presentation the main subject is the FE browser plugin, but currently there are Node.js and Python interfaces available and more are to come (e.g. Ruby).
To me the main problem had been - what sort of abstraction is needed to efficiently utilise GPU and CPU cores and Fabric Engine appears to target exactly this.
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Ilya Dmitrichenko