cunumeric VS grcuda

Compare cunumeric vs grcuda and see what are their differences.

cunumeric

An Aspiring Drop-In Replacement for NumPy at Scale (by nv-legate)

grcuda

Polyglot CUDA integration for the GraalVM (by NVIDIA)
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cunumeric grcuda
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595 217
1.2% -0.5%
8.5 0.0
3 days ago 9 months ago
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cunumeric

Posts with mentions or reviews of cunumeric. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-09.
  • Announcing Chapel 1.32
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2023
  • Is Parallel Programming Hard, and, If So, What Can You Do About It? [pdf]
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Feb 2023
    I am biased because this is my research area, but I have to respectfully disagree. Actor models are awful, and the only reason it's not obvious is because everything else is even more awful.

    But if you look at e.g., the recent work on task-based models, you'll see that you can have literally sequential programs that parallelize automatically. No message passing, no synchronization, no data races, no deadlocks. Read your programs as if they're sequential, and you immediately understand their semantics. Some of these systems are able to scale to thousands of nodes.

    An interesting example of this is cuNumeric, which allows you to take sequential Python programs that use NumPy, and by changing one line (the import statement), run automatically on clusters of GPUs. It is 100% pure awesomeness.

    https://github.com/nv-legate/cunumeric

    (I don't work on cuNumeric, but I do work on the runtime framework that cuNumeric uses.)

  • GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2023
    I know this probably isn't intended for performance, but it would be fun to run this in cuNumeric [1] and see how it scales.

    [1]: https://github.com/nv-legate/cunumeric

  • Dask – a flexible library for parallel computing in Python
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2021
    If you want built-in GPU support (and distributed), you should check out cuNumeric (released by NVIDIA in the last week or so). Also avoids needing to manually specify chunk sizes, like it says in a sibling comment.

    https://github.com/nv-legate/cunumeric

  • Julia is the better language for extending Python
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2021
    Try dask

    Distribute your data and run everything as dask.delayed and then compute only at the end.

    Also check out legate.numpy from Nvidia which promises to be a drop in numpy replacement that will use all your CPU cores without any tweaks on your part.

    https://github.com/nv-legate/legate.numpy

  • Learning more about HPC as a python guy
    1 project | /r/HPC | 19 Apr 2021
    Something for the HPC tools category: https://github.com/nv-legate/legate.numpy
  • Unifying the CUDA Python Ecosystem
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2021
    You might be interested in Legate [1]. It supports the NumPy interface as a drop-in replacement, supports GPUs and also distributed machines. And you can see for yourself their performance results; they're not far off from hand-tuned MPI.

    [1]: https://github.com/nv-legate/legate.numpy

    Disclaimer: I work on the library Legate uses for distributed computing, but otherwise have no connection.

  • Legate NumPy: An Aspiring Drop-In Replacement for NumPy at Scale
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2021

grcuda

Posts with mentions or reviews of grcuda. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cunumeric and grcuda you can also consider the following projects:

cupy - NumPy & SciPy for GPU

cudf - cuDF - GPU DataFrame Library

CudaPy - CudaPy is a runtime library that lets Python programmers access NVIDIA's CUDA parallel computation API.

wgpu-py - Next generation GPU API for Python

CUDA.jl - CUDA programming in Julia.

numba - NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM

intel-graphics-compiler

legate.pandas - An Aspiring Drop-In Replacement for Pandas at Scale

amaranth - A modern hardware definition language and toolchain based on Python

shared_numpy - A simple library for creating shared memory numpy arrays

compute-runtime - Intel® Graphics Compute Runtime for oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL™ Driver