Harlan: a Language That Simplifies GPU Programming

hypnosec writes "Harlan – a declarative programming language that simplifies development of applications running on GPU has been released by a researcher at Indiana University. Erik Holk released his work publicly after working on it for two years. Harlan's syntax is based on Scheme – a dialect of LISP programming language. The language aims to help developers make productive and efficient use of GPUs by enabling them to carry out their actual work while it takes care of the routine GPU programming tasks. The language has been designed to support GPU programming and it works much closer to the hardware." Also worth a mention is Haskell's GPipe interface to programmable GPUs.

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Re:Link to a simple example

[zdzichu]

Holk reveals that the name Harlan comes from a mishearing of fried chicken icon Colonel Sanders' first name, Harland, and this association is also why all the file extensions for Harlan programs are .kfc.

Re:dialect of LISP

[marcello_dl]

Because lisp-style languages are already simplified to the extreme, you mean? Phew, for a moment I thought I spotted a troll.