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Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU

Posted by timothy on from the also-it's-delicious dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today the source code to the Rootbeer GPU Compiler was released as open source on github. This work allows for a developer to use almost any Java code on the GPU. It is free, open source and highly tested. Rootbeer is the most full featured translator to convert Java Bytecode to CUDA. It allows arbitrary graphs of objects to be serialized to the GPU and the GPU kernel to be written in Java." Rootbeer is the work of Syracuse University instructor Phil Pratt-Szeliga.

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  1. Re:How about getting java code to run on java by LodCrappo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    2004 called, they want their blind hate for Java back.

    Used intelligently by a skilled programmer, Java can deliver great results and provide exactly the sort of cross platform capabilities it was designed for. Used by idiots and/or kids who just earned that undergrad CS degree, it tends to provide less.

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    -Lod
  2. Re:Any code? by ThePeices · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, you are quite wrong indeed.

    There are bad students out there, we do not live in a perfect happy smiley little world where every human has limitless potential and can do *anything* if only they tried and had good teachers. That nonsense view comes out of what political correctness has done to modern western society.

    There are students who truly are unwilling to learn, dont want to be there, and are only in class because they have to.

    There are actually students out there who will never be able to pass certain exams, no matter how good the teachers are and no matter how much they try. Some things are just beyond some people.

    The *real world* is not perfect, humans are not perfect.

    If you think that is a cynical view, well then that is utterly irrelevant to my point. Facts are facts, no matter how much we dont or do like that fact.

  3. Re:Any code? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...tool & dye....

    "Thinking is hard work, which is why so few people do it." - Henry Ford

    Tool and die. I can understand not knowing how to spell it, bit quoting Henry Ford and not realizing that die work and tooling are technical jobs is abhorrent.

    Tech support is to computer science as die setters are to mechanical engineers.

    Tool and die makers are the software developers of the hardware world.

    Captcha is pompous. How relevant.