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		Athas on March 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Futhark – A small programming language that compil... Any array combinator (most importantly map, scan, reduce, and filter) are executed on the GPU (or whatever parallel execution platform is used).

ivanceras on March 26, 2017 [–]

What is the minimum OpenCL version? I'm evaluatimg if this could be a viable experimentation for parallelizing task which uses amazon GPU compute which are mostly nvidia GPU.

Athas on March 26, 2017 | [–]

Somewhere around OpenCL 1.1 and 1.2. It works fine on NVIDIA GPUs - they are our main test platform.

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