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Top 23 C++ Gpgpu Projects
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FluidX3D
The fastest and most memory efficient lattice Boltzmann CFD software, running on all GPUs and CPUs via OpenCL. Free for non-commercial use.
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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.
Project mention: Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-08 -
AdaptiveCpp
Compiler for multiple programming models (SYCL, C++ standard parallelism, HIP/CUDA) 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!
Project mention: AdaptiveCpp – Implementation of SYCL and C++ Parallelism for CPUs and GPUs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-02 -
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cuda-api-wrappers
Thin C++-flavored header-only wrappers for core CUDA APIs: Runtime, Driver, NVRTC, NVTX.
Project mention: Nvidia Security Team: "What if we just stopped using C?" (2022) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-13> with the C++ API
The funny thing is that the "C++ API" is almost entirely C-like, foregoing almost everything beneficial and convenient about C++, while at the same time not being properly limited to C.
(which is why I wrote this: https://github.com/eyalroz/cuda-api-wrappers/ )
> an awful GPU mailbox design is still the cutting-edge tech
Can you elaborate on what you mean by a "mailbox design"?
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For my tasks, I had some success with algebraic multigrid solvers as preconditioner, for example from AMGCL or PyAMG. They are also reasonably easy to get started with.
https://github.com/pyamg/pyamg
https://github.com/ddemidov/amgcl
But I only have to deal with positive definite systems, so YMMV.
I am not sure whether those libraries can deal with multiple right-hand sides, but most complexity is in the preconditioners anyway.
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OpenCL-Wrapper
OpenCL is the most powerful programming language ever created. Yet the OpenCL C++ bindings are cumbersome and the code overhead prevents many people from getting started. I created this lightweight OpenCL-Wrapper to greatly simplify OpenCL software development with C++ while keeping functionality and performance.
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Project mention: AMA: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-25
Hi, I'm Mihai Preda the author of GpuOwl/PRPLL [1], an OpenCL software that was used by Luke Durant for his recent discovery of the largest prime number know, the 52nd Mersenne prime 2^136279841 - 1 [2].
Feel free to ask questions about technical aspects of the GpuOwl implementation, about optimizations, tricks, efficient FFT implementation on GPUs etc. Or anything else.
[1] GpuOwl: https://github.com/preda/gpuowl
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ParallelReductionsBenchmark
Thrust, CUB, TBB, AVX2, AVX-512, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenMP, Metal, and Rust - all it takes to sum a lot of numbers fast!
Project mention: Memory-Level Parallelism: Apple M2 vs. Apple M4 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-09It’s a very interesting benchmark (https://github.com/lemire/TestingMLP) — probably worth adding to the Phoronix suite.
Every couple of years I refresh my own parallel reduction benchmarks (https://github.com/ashvardanian/ParallelReductionsBenchmark), which are also memory-bound. Mine mostly focus on the boring but necessary throughput-maximizing cases on CPUs and GPUs.
Lately, as GPUs are pulled into more general data-processing tasks, I keep running into non-coalesced, pointer-chasing patterns — but I still don’t have a good mental model for estimating the cost of different access strategies. A crossover between these two topics — running MLP-style loads on GPUs — might be exactly the benchmark missing, in case someone is looking for a good weekend project!
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C++ Gpgpu discussion
C++ Gpgpu related posts
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Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level
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AdaptiveCpp – Implementation of SYCL and C++ Parallelism for CPUs and GPUs
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AdaptiveCpp: Implementation of SYCL and C++ CPUs and GPUs
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AMA: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number
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Gimps Discovers Largest Known Prime Number: 2^136279841 – 1
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New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)
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AdaptiveCpp – SYCL implementation to run C++ on CPUs and GPUs
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Gpgpu projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ArrayFire | 4,736 |
| 2 | SHADERed | 4,537 |
| 3 | FluidX3D | 4,509 |
| 4 | kompute | 2,258 |
| 5 | AdaptiveCpp | 1,663 |
| 6 | Boost.Compute | 1,615 |
| 7 | MatX | 1,338 |
| 8 | compute-runtime | 1,255 |
| 9 | stdgpu | 1,226 |
| 10 | cuda-api-wrappers | 846 |
| 11 | amgcl | 800 |
| 12 | vulkan_minimal_compute | 729 |
| 13 | VexCL | 714 |
| 14 | occa | 423 |
| 15 | OpenCL-Wrapper | 412 |
| 16 | vuh | 350 |
| 17 | BabelStream | 345 |
| 18 | opencl-intercept-layer | 332 |
| 19 | RayTracing | 325 |
| 20 | OpenCL-Benchmark | 230 |
| 21 | gpuowl | 197 |
| 22 | ParallelReductionsBenchmark | 99 |
| 23 | UE4_GPGPU_flocking | 80 |
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