ArrayFire VS stdgpu

Compare ArrayFire vs stdgpu and see what are their differences.

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ArrayFire stdgpu
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4,383 1,066
1.1% -
7.8 7.1
21 days ago 16 days ago
C++ C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Apache License 2.0
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ArrayFire

Posts with mentions or reviews of ArrayFire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-27.
  • Learn WebGPU
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023
    Loads of people have stated why easy GPU interfaces are difficult to create, but we solve many difficult things all the time.

    Ultimately I think CPUs are just satisfactory for the vast vast majority of workloads. Servers rarely come with any GPUs to speak of. The ecosystem around GPUs is unattractive. CPUs have SIMD instructions that can help. There are so many reasons not to use GPUs. By the time anyone seriously considers using GPUs they're, in my imagination, typically seriously starved for performance, and looking to control as much of the execution details as possible. GPU programmers don't want an automagic solution.

    So I think the demand for easy GPU interfaces is just very weak, and therefore no effort has taken off. The amount of work needed to make it as easy to use as CPUs is massive, and the only reason anyone would even attempt to take this on is to lock you in to expensive hardware (see CUDA).

    For a practical suggestion, have you taken a look at https://arrayfire.com/ ? It can run on both CUDA and OpenCL, and it has C++, Rust and Python bindings.

  • [D] Deep Learning Framework for C++.
    7 projects | /r/MachineLearning | 12 Jun 2022
    Low-overhead — not our goal, but Flashlight is on par with or outperforming most other ML/DL frameworks with its ArrayFire reference tensor implementation, especially on nonstandard setups where framework overhead matters
  • [D] Neural Networks using a generic GPU framework
    2 projects | /r/MachineLearning | 4 Jan 2022
    Looking for frameworks with Julia + OpenCL I found array fire. It seems quite good, bonus points for rust bindings. I will keep looking for more, Julia completely fell off my radar.

stdgpu

Posts with mentions or reviews of stdgpu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning stdgpu yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ArrayFire and stdgpu you can also consider the following projects:

Thrust - [ARCHIVED] The C++ parallel algorithms library. See https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl

Boost.Compute - A C++ GPU Computing Library for OpenCL

VexCL - VexCL is a C++ vector expression template library for OpenCL/CUDA/OpenMP

Pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration

CUB - THIS REPOSITORY HAS MOVED TO github.com/nvidia/cub, WHICH IS AUTOMATICALLY MIRRORED HERE.

Taskflow - A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming System

moderngpu - Patterns and behaviors for GPU computing

HPX - The C++ Standard Library for Parallelism and Concurrency

moodycamel - A fast multi-producer, multi-consumer lock-free concurrent queue for C++11

RaftLib - The RaftLib C++ library, streaming/dataflow concurrency via C++ iostream-like operators

libcudacxx - [ARCHIVED] The C++ Standard Library for your entire system. See https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl