[erlang-questions] Erlang for GPUs

[Brian Granger]

We are working on GPU libraries for a number of other languages and
Erlang might be another interesting target.  But, does Erlang have
array/vector/matrix classes that

1) are represented by continguous memory blocks

2) have elements that correspond the standard C datatypes int, float, etc.

This would be needed to interface with a GPU.

Brian

On Dec 5, 2007 5:17 AM, Dan Moniz <dnm@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:10:31 -0600, mog <mogorman@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 19:58 +0100, dfeustel@REDACTED wrote:
> >> Are there any Erlang Compilers that generate code for
> >> upcoming GPUs from Nvidia and ATI?
> >No.
> >
> >however there was ecomp, http://www.erlang.se/euc/00/processor.ppt ,
> >which was a erlang vm for an fpga, however, it was never released to the
> >public :(, i think we should continue to poll ericcson and erlang team
> >to release it.  Please!!!
>
> Interesting find Mog! Thanks for the link to the PowerPoint
> presentation. I had recently been thinking about Erlang and hardware
> designs, so this is a welcome discovery.
>
> Kenneth, Bjorn, Joe, or Robert:
>
> Are either of the authors of the presentation (Peter Lundell and Robert
> Tjarnstrom) still at Ericsson? Does anyone know what became of this
> work, and if, as Mog suggests, there's any chance of having it see the
> light of day? I'm particularly interested in the VHDL implementation and
> testbench mentioned in the PowerPoint presentation, but documentation,
> attendant Erlang prototype code, notes, etc. would also be very welcome.
>
>
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> Dan Moniz <dnm@REDACTED> [http://pobox.com/~dnm/]
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