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Dev tools · June 1, 2019

A Language for Programming GPUs

Most languages target CPUs, but what if we target GPUs?. Tagged with showdev, discuss, rust, machinelearning.

A Language for Programming GPUs launched on June 1, 2019 with 12 votes, #775 of 2,757 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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A Language for Programming GPUs is a programming language designed for developers who need to write code that runs on graphics processing units. Launched in 2019, it provides tools and syntax specifically optimized for GPU computation tasks. The language aims to simplify the complexity of parallel processing on GPU hardware, making it more accessible to programmers working on computationally intensive applications such as machine learning, scientific computing, or graphics rendering.

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Most languages are for programming CPUs (that stands for Central Processing Unit). If you write a program in Python or Rust, for example, and run it - it gets run on your computer's CPU(s). But the CPU isn't the only part of your computer that can do computing. Your computer might also come with a GPU. GPU stands for Graphics Processing Unit and while GPUs are often used for processing graphics they are in general best at processing lots of numbers. If you have a list of a million numbers and want to scale them by a factor of 2. Your program will likely run faster on a GPU than a CPU. But if languages like Python or Rust don't usually run on GPUs, what languages do? There are several.…from dev.to

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