GPUCompiler.jl VS Octavian.jl

Compare GPUCompiler.jl vs Octavian.jl and see what are their differences.

GPUCompiler.jl

Reusable compiler infrastructure for Julia GPU backends. (by JuliaGPU)

Octavian.jl

Multi-threaded BLAS-like library that provides pure Julia matrix multiplication (by JuliaLinearAlgebra)
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GPUCompiler.jl Octavian.jl
5 17
142 222
1.4% 0.5%
8.5 5.3
13 days ago about 2 months ago
Julia Julia
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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GPUCompiler.jl

Posts with mentions or reviews of GPUCompiler.jl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-06.
  • GenieFramework – Web Development with Julia
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2022
  • We Use Julia, 10 Years Later
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2022
    I don't think it's frowned upon to compile, many people want this capability as well. If you had a program that could be proven to use no dynamic dispatch it would probably be feasible to compile it as a static binary. But as long as you have a tiny bit of dynamic behavior, you need the Julia runtime so currently a binary will be very large, with lots of theoretically unnecessary libraries bundled into it. There are already efforts like GPUCompiler[1] that do fixed-type compilation, there will be more in this space in the future.

    [1] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/GPUCompiler.jl

  • Why Fortran is easy to learn
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2022
    Julia's compiler is made to be extendable. GPUCompiler.jl which adds the .ptx compilation output for example is a package (https://github.com/JuliaGPU/GPUCompiler.jl). The package manager of Julia itself... is an external package (https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl). The built in SuiteSparse usage? That's a package too (https://github.com/JuliaLang/SuiteSparse.jl). It's fairly arbitrary what is "external" and "internal" in a language that allows that kind of extendability. Literally the only thing that makes these packages a standard library is that they are built into and shipped with the standard system image. Do you want to make your own distribution of Julia that changes what the "internal" packages are? Here's a tutorial that shows how to add plotting to the system image (https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/examples/...). You could setup a binary server for that and now the first time to plot is 0.4 seconds.

    Julia's arrays system is built so that most arrays that are used are not the simple Base.Array. Instead Julia has an AbstractArray interface definition (https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/interfaces/#man-inte...) which the Base.Array conforms to, and many effectively standard library packages like StaticArrays.jl, OffsetArrays.jl, etc. conform to, and thus they can be used in any other Julia package, like the differential equation solvers, solving nonlinear systems, optimization libraries, etc. There is a higher chance that packages depend on these packages then that they do not. They are only not part of the Julia distribution because the core idea is to move everything possible out to packages. There's not only a plan to make SuiteSparse and sparse matrix support be a package in 2.0, but also ideas about making the rest of linear algebra and arrays themselves into packages where Julia just defines memory buffer intrinsic (with likely the Arrays.jl package still shipped with the default image). At that point, are arrays not built into the language? I can understand using such a narrow definition for systems like Fortran or C where the standard library is essentially a fixed concept, but that just does not make sense with Julia. It's inherently fuzzy.

  • Cuda.jl v3.3: union types, debug info, graph APIs
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2021
    A fun fact is that the GPUCompiler, which compiles the code to run in GPU's, is the current way to generate binaries without hiding the whole ~200mb of julia runtime in the binary.

    https://github.com/JuliaGPU/GPUCompiler.jl/ https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/

Octavian.jl

Posts with mentions or reviews of Octavian.jl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GPUCompiler.jl and Octavian.jl you can also consider the following projects:

OpenBLAS - OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.

KernelAbstractions.jl - Heterogeneous programming in Julia

CUDA.jl - CUDA programming in Julia.

Symbolics.jl - Symbolic programming for the next generation of numerical software

owl - Owl - OCaml Scientific Computing @ https://ocaml.xyz

StaticCompiler.jl - Compiles Julia code to a standalone library (experimental)

Verilog.jl - Verilog for Julia

Automa.jl - A julia code generator for regular expressions

Vulkan.jl - Using Vulkan from Julia

oneAPI.jl - Julia support for the oneAPI programming toolkit.

acados - Fast and embedded solvers for nonlinear optimal control