VkFFT VS kompute

Hello, I am the creator of the VkFFT - GPU Fast Fourier Transform library for Vulkan/CUDA/HIP/OpenCL/Level Zero and Metal. In the latest update, I have added support for quad-precision double-double emulation for FFT calculation on most modern GPUs. I understand that modern ML is going in the opposite low-precision direction, but I still think that it may be useful to have this functionality at least for some prototyping and development of concepts.

Not quite what I asked for, but close enough for now...

https://github.com/DTolm/VkFFT/discussions/126

Source - I have made a somewhat functional programming-like FFT library (https://github.com/DTolm/VkFFT/tree/develop) which also operates on abstract data containers. Maybe it can be interesting to you from the algorithmic point of view.

VkFFT is a use-case I've heard of where Vulkan-Compute is faster than its Cuda and OpenCL counter-part: https://github.com/DTolm/VkFFT

Hello, I am the creator of the VkFFT - GPU Fast Fourier Transform library for Vulkan/CUDA/HIP/OpenCL and Level Zero. In the latest update, I have added support for Apple Metal API, which will allow VkFFT to run natively on modern Apple SoC. I have tested it on MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro 8c CPU/14c GPU SoC single precision on 1D batched FFT test of all systems from 2 to 4096. Achieved bandwidth is calculated as 2*system size divided by the time taken per FFT - minimum memory that has to be transferred between DRAM and GPU:

Another possible project to look at is https://github.com/DTolm/VkFFT

The two I know of are IREE and Kompute[1]. I'm not sure how much momentum the latter has, I don't see it referenced much. There's also a growing body of work that uses Vulkan indirectly through WebGPU. This is currently lagging in performance due to lack of subgroups and cooperative matrix mult, but I see that gap closing. There I think wonnx[2] has the most momentum, but I am aware of other efforts.

[1]: https://kompute.cc/

[2]: https://github.com/webonnx/wonnx

Great to see the positive momentum of this framework! Best wishes and upvotes from the Vulkan Kompute team :)

To a first approximation, Kompute[1] is that. It doesn't seem to be catching on, I'm seeing more buzz around WebGPU solutions, including wonnx[2] and more hand-rolled approaches, and IREE[3], the latter of which has a Vulkan back-end.

[1]: https://kompute.cc/

[2]: https://github.com/webonnx/wonnx

[3]: https://github.com/openxla/iree

I look in an example and see similar instructions, stating that the build should be quite simple. But again, it doesn't work. It generates a bunch of folders with Visual Studio stuff, but no executables, no libraries, or anything like that.

I can't figure out how, and there are no tutorials. According to https://kompute.cc/overview/build-system.html I should simply run "cmake -Bbuild". But this doesn't output what I need, and when I look in the Makefile I get the sense that this is more an example Makefile... but then that contradicts the above tutorial.

Kompute is in my opinion good example to take inspiration for abstractions.

Currently, there's a few Vulkan compute frameworks floating around (like Kompute). I would work with those. Kompute simplifies a lot of the biolerplate and seems like you could benefit from using it.

Try Kompute, a project from the Linux foundation. It is quite simple to use, and does not require deep knowledge of graphics API. It’s a bit painful to setup, but it kinda works well (and I have a project going on on it)

This so much.

This makes alot of sense considering the Linux Foundation is also in charge of Kompute which is likely to be the basis of vendor agnostic GPGPU, and thus the basis of vendor agnostic GPU-based machine learning.