gpgpu-rs VS gpuweb

If you don't mind using a pure rust "alternative" you could use wgpu or a wrapper like gpgpu-rs, or any other of the projects mentioned in the other comments.

gpgpu-rs is a wgpu helper lib

You could try gpgpu-rs, a compute-focused framework I'm writing. It has some nice integrations with image and ndarray (tho the latter still needs some work) I'll definitely love some feedback :)

Would be really nice to have an actual cross platform GPGPU library. It's really holding every kind of progress back to have only vendor lock-in.

Maybe WebCPU will be capable of compute to the extend that CUDA isn't necessary. https://github.com/UpsettingBoy/gpgpu-rs

gpgpu-rs it is then! 🙂

I'm working on a compute framework (gpgpu-rs) based on wgpu, if you wanna check out.

My recommendation is to stick with WGSL for wgpu. I have some simple compute shaders examples if you wanna check out.

People keep spreading this incredibly misleading statement, and yours is even more misleading (suggesting Apple opposed a 'GPU WASM')

By all accounts, Apple's /only/ stance was that if WebGPU used SPIR-V it would be a non-starter for them, due to ongoing legal issues between Apple and Khronos.

Apple actually proposed WebHLSL in collaboration with Microsoft, to have HLSL be the standard.

Mozilla employee's stance[0] was that SPIRV was too low level, did not fit with the goals of WebGPU portability and security, and expressed concern that Khronos may add functionality to SPIRV they cannot support in WebGPU like raytracing instructions .. 'So we'd always be on the verge of forking SPIR-V in some way.'

It was also noted by many people that even if a bytecode format was used, it would still have to be translated to the target (HLSL/DXIL, MSL, etc.) in almost the same way a text format would.

Nobody proposed a 'GPU WASM equivalent' or an alternative bytecode format.

The hard truth is that shader compilation is a fucking nightmare, people do not realize how bad it is across the different native APIs. SPIR-V is good, but it doesn't solve that - and presents other challenges if you are a web browser API. Vulkan and SPIRV are not the golden goose many make them out to be.

[0] https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/847#issuecomment-642...

Yes it is still a bit new. WebGPU is not finished and is still being worked on: https://webgpu.io/

WebGPU currently doesn't support the "bindless" resource access model (see: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/380).

The "max number of sampled texture per shader stage" is a runtime device limit, and the minimal value for that seems to be 16. So texture atlasses are still a thing in WebGPU.

There's even an implementation under discussion to have the dp4a instruction added to WebGPU (https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/2677)