February 2012
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The n-body problem and vectorisation of nested...
Last year, we spent a lot of energy on reducing the memory consumption of vectorised Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) programs that use large shared data structures. This work was driven by an implementation of the Barnes-Hut algorithm in DPH. Ben produced an illustrative video animating an n-body simulation with his Gloss library. The video is part of his blog article Vectorisation without Replication...
January 2012
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Released Data.Array.Accelerate 0.9.0.0 — the...
I just released accelerate 0.9.0.0 on Hackage. This is the version that has been available from the GitHub repository for a while (supporting shape polymorphism, stencil computations, block I/O, and much more), but adapted such that it works with the forthcoming GHC 7.4.1 release. (I tested it with 7.4.1 RC2).It doesn’t yet include Trevor’s recent work that improved the CUDA backend in...