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January 2012

Released Data.Array.Accelerate 0.9.0.0 — the Haskell array library for GPUs

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 many significant ways — you can get that code from Trevor's fork on GitHub.

For more details, see the main GitHub repository and the GitHub wiki pages.

Filed under  //  accelerate   edsl   gpgpu   parallelism  
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Free, nicely presented textbooks with good distribution

Free, nicely presented textbooks with good distribution have got quite an appeal.

Filed under  //  ibooks  
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Unix wins

We are witnessing the transition from Windows on Intel to Unix on (mostly) ARM. It is a testament to the flexibility of the design that a system originally designed for mainframes achieves mass market appeal on resource-constrained mobile systems.

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Filed under  //  unix  
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