The accelerate package
Data.Array.Accelerate defines an embedded array language for computations for high-performance computing in Haskell. Computations on multi-dimensional, regular arrays are expressed in the form of parameterised collective operations, such as maps, reductions, and permutations. These computations may then be online compiled and executed on a range of architectures.
- A simple example
As a simple example, consider the computation of a dot product of two vectors of floating point numbers:
dotp :: Acc (Vector Float) -> Acc (Vector Float) -> Acc (Scalar Float) dotp xs ys = fold (+) 0 (zipWith (*) xs ys)
Except for the type, this code is almost the same as the corresponding Haskell code on lists of floats. The types indicate that the computation may be online-compiled for performance – for example, using Data.Array.Accelerate.CUDA it may be on-the-fly off-loaded to the GPU.
- Available backends
Currently, there are two backends:
1. An interpreter that serves as a reference implementation of the intended semantics of the language, which is included in this package.
2. A CUDA backend generating code for CUDA-capable NVIDIA GPUs: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-cuda
Several experimental and/or incomplete backends also exist. If you are interested in helping finish these, please contact us.
1. Cilk/ICC and OpenCL: https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-backend-kit
2. Another OpenCL backend: https://github.com/HIPERFIT/accelerate-opencl
3. A backend to the Repa array library: https://github.com/blambo/accelerate-repa
- Additional components
The following support packages are available:
1. accelerate-cuda: A high-performance parallel backend targeting CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs. Requires the NVIDIA CUDA SDK and, for full functionality, hardware with compute capability 1.2 or greater. See the table on Wikipedia for supported GPUs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA#Supported_GPUs
2. accelerate-examples: Computational kernels and applications showcasing Accelerate, as well as performance and regression tests.
3. accelerate-io: Fast conversion between Accelerate arrays and other formats, including Repa arrays.
4. accelerate-fft: Computation of Discrete Fourier Transforms.
Install them from Hackage with cabal install PACKAGE
- Examples and documentation
Haddock documentation is included in the package, and a tutorial is available on the GitHub wiki: https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate/wiki
The accelerate-examples package demonstrates a range of computational kernels and several complete applications, including:
An implementation of the Canny edge detection algorithm
An interactive Mandelbrot set generator
A particle-based simulation of stable fluid flows
An n-body simulation of gravitational attraction between solid particles
A cellular automata simulation
A "password recovery" tool, for dictionary lookup of MD5 hashes
- Mailing list and contacts
Mailing list: accelerate-haskell@googlegroups.com (discussion of both use and development welcome).
Sign up for the mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/accelerate-haskell
Bug reports and issue tracking: https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate/issues
- Release notes
0.13.0.0: New array fusion optimisation. New foreign function interface for array and scalar expressions. Additional Prelude-like functions. New example programs. Bug fixes and performance improvements.
0.12.0.0: Full sharing recovery in scalar expressions and array computations. Two new example applications in package accelerate-examples: Real-time Canny edge detection and fluid flow simulator (both including a graphical frontend). Bug fixes.
0.11.0.0: New Prelude-like functions zip*, unzip*, fill, enumFrom*, tail, init, drop, take, slit, gather*, scatter*, and shapeSize. New simplified AST (in package accelerate-backend-kit) for backend writers who want to avoid the complexities of the type-safe AST.
0.10.0.0: Complete sharing recovery for scalar expressions (but currently disabled by default). Also bug fixes in array sharing recovery and a few new convenience functions.
0.9.0.0: Streaming, precompilation, Repa-style indices, stencils, more scans, rank-polymorphic fold, generate, block I/O & many bug fixes.
0.8.1.0: Bug fixes and some performance tweaks.
0.8.0.0: replicate, slice and foldSeg supported in the CUDA backend; frontend and interpreter support for stencil. Bug fixes.
0.7.1.0: The CUDA backend and a number of scalar functions.
Properties
| Versions | 0.4.0, 0.5.0.0, 0.6.0.0, 0.7.1.0, 0.8.0.0, 0.8.1.0, 0.9.0.0, 0.9.0.1, 0.10.0.0, 0.12.0.0, 0.12.1.0, 0.12.2.0, 0.13.0.0, 0.13.0.1 |
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| Dependencies | array (≥0.3 & <0.5), base (4.*), containers (≥0.3 & <0.6), fclabels (≥1.0 & <1.2), ghc-prim, hashable (≥1.1 & <1.3), hashtables (≥1.0 & <1.2), pretty (≥1.0 & <1.2) |
| License | BSD3 |
| Author | Manuel M T Chakravarty, Robert Clifton-Everest, Gabriele Keller, Sean Lee, Ben Lever, Trevor L. McDonell, Ryan Newtown, Sean Seefried |
| Maintainer | Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak@cse.unsw.edu.au> |
| Stability | Experimental |
| Category | Compilers/Interpreters, Concurrency, Data, Parallelism |
| Home page | https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate/ |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate/issues |
| Source repository | git clone git://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate.git |
| Upload date | Sun May 12 09:02:16 UTC 2013 |
| Uploaded by | TrevorMcDonell |
| Built on | ghc-7.6 |
| Distributions | NixOS: 0.13.0.1 |
Modules
Downloads
- accelerate-0.13.0.1.tar.gz (Cabal source package)
- package description (included in the package)