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Yes. I've read the series, and I saw the SWIG reference. But, my past experiences with attempting to use SWIG (on Win) have been less than successful; and if it was so trivial, I am surprised that no one has done it for Perl yet. In theory, h2xs also ought to be able to build a Perlish interface for it, but that doesn't work with MS compilers either.

Anyway, as it turns out, I wouldn't be able to utilise it anyway. Although the latest drivers for my NVidia GeForce 7050 "support CUDA", the actual card itself doesn't. That didn't become available until the GeForce 8 series :( I could apparently run it in emulation mode, but that kinda defeats the purpose. And I do not see myself springing for an upgraded graphics card anytime time soon.

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Re^3: Cuda access from Perl?
by psilambda (Initiate) on May 24, 2010 at 16:02 UTC

    Try searching cpan again with 'CUDA'--you should get KappaCUDA 1.1.1. This is a SWIG wrapper (SWIG '.i' file included in the module package) of the (commercial) Kappa Library which I wrote. BTW, this SWIG file should work for any other SWIG supported language--I know it works for Python, for example.

    The KappaCUDA module gives complete object-oriented access to the CUDA driver API (which is a superset of the runtime API) along with memory management, a kernel scheduler, and implementing the Perl philosophy that: by default it should do the right thing but it should let you do whatever you want.

    I will soon be posting on my website: PsiLambda.com a companion piece, keywordPerl, that gives Perl as close to complete parity (other than performance) with C++ as GPU hardware allows (GPU hardware is not likely to run Perl or any other interpreted language any time soon--although I look forward to the notice that informs me that I am wrong about that ;) ).

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      Cool stuff! Thanks for making this available. Now all in need is a CUDA enabled GPU :(

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