Interesting CUDA C++ Toolkit – Thrust
This morning a good friend messaged me about something I might want to keep in mind as I do more massively parallel projects in the future, and that's a C++ library that fits in will with the STL, and is written by a couple of engineers at NVIDIA - Thrust. This looks very interesting.
The idea is that with the CUDA nvcc compiler, and a little pre-processing and some templates, they have made the STL std::vector equivalent for GPU/CPU usage. You can say where you want this vector to be held, and then process a functor on it to get things done very quickly. It's not as clean as OpenCL, in my opinion, but it's far more likely to be used as throwing NVIDIA cards into boxes - even server boxes, and using GCC/nvcc is a lot more likely in the typical business use-case.
Macs still aren't getting significant penetration there, but it's getting better.
So this is something to keep in mind, for sure. Thankfully, it'll run on Macs as well - so I just need to get a Mac Pro with NVIDIA card(s) and then I can start playing with it. Sweet.