arbor VS alpaka

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arbor

The Arbor multi-compartment neural network simulation library. (by arbor-sim)
neuroscience HPC Cuda GPU Mpi modern-cpp Hip
Source Code
arbor-sim.org
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alpaka

Abstraction Library for Parallel Kernel Acceleration :llama: (by alpaka-group)
Cuda HPC GPU Rocm Hip Openmp openacc heterogeneous-parallel-programming CPP header-only Tbb Cpp17
Source Code
alpaka.readthedocs.io
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arbor alpaka
2 1
101 324
1.0% 3.7%
8.1 9.2
12 days ago 3 days ago
C++ C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Mozilla Public License 2.0
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arbor

Posts with mentions or reviews of arbor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-17.

alpaka

Posts with mentions or reviews of alpaka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-01.
  • Cross Platform GPU-Capable Framework?
    6 projects | /r/gpgpu | 1 Aug 2021
    Note that Kokkos uses CUDA, OpenMP and also SYCL in order to have a wide range of targets. I'd also suggest taking a look at Alpaka https://github.com/alpaka-group/alpaka which is similar in some ways.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing arbor and alpaka you can also consider the following projects:

ginkgo - Numerical linear algebra software package

clspv - Clspv is a compiler for OpenCL C to Vulkan compute shaders

HPCInfo - Information about many aspects of high-performance computing. Wiki content moved to ~/docs.

GLSL - GLSL Shading Language Issue Tracker

AdaptiveCpp - Implementation of SYCL and C++ standard parallelism for CPUs and GPUs from all vendors: The independent, community-driven compiler for C++-based heterogeneous programming models. Lets applications adapt themselves to all the hardware in the system - even at runtime!

kompute - General purpose GPU compute framework built on Vulkan to support 1000s of cross vendor graphics cards (AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA & friends). Blazing fast, mobile-enabled, asynchronous and optimized for advanced GPU data processing usecases. Backed by the Linux Foundation.

ArrayFire - ArrayFire: a general purpose GPU library.

OpenCLOn12 - The OpenCL-on-D3D12 mapping layer

stdgpu - stdgpu: Efficient STL-like Data Structures on the GPU

clvk - Implementation of OpenCL 3.0 on Vulkan

mixbench - A GPU benchmark tool for evaluating GPUs and CPUs on mixed operational intensity kernels (CUDA, OpenCL, HIP, SYCL, OpenMP)

ParallelReductionsBenchmark - Thrust, CUB, TBB, AVX2, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenMP, SyCL - all it takes to sum a lot of numbers fast!

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