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[pro] GPU/CUDA & common lisp
by Tamas Papp 05 Apr '12

05 Apr '12

Hi everyone, I am about to buy a new server for number crunching, and I would like to keep my options open about GPU/CUDA based computations. The most intensively parallelizable thing that I am doing is particle filtering, and currently that works fine (and is really fast) in a multi-core CPU with SBCL, but I keep hearing wonderful things about GPUs from people, and I was wondering if I could make use of them but still program in CL. I basically have two questions: - What is the current status of using CPUs for computation in CL (in particular SBCL)? All I found was CL-GPU but I haven't tried it yet (my current server does not have a GPU). - What hardware is supported (if I want to use CL)? Can I use something like Nvidia's TESCLA C line? Any help/pointers/accounts would be appreciated, I am just exploring this so I don't know much about it yet, apologies if I am not asking the right questions. Best, Tamas

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[pro] [Review Request] Small example of modern application of Common Lisp
by Christian von Essen 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, I use CL to scrape several comic websites and generate a website that collects the daily strips from that. The (small) program's features: * Easy definition of comic sources * Uses xpath to get the comics * Stores an archive of daily comics * Generate web pages with comics per day A feature that is IMHO still missing is easier (maybe interactive) comic specification. Currently you better get your xpath right. I think it would be possible to promote CL with an application like that. Could you have a look at the code and give me some hints on style and CL in general, so that the code actually becomes good enough for that purpose? You can find it there: https://github.com/Neronus/Lisp-Utils/blob/master/comics.lisp And an example of the generated output here: http://christian.ftwca.de/comics/ Thank you, Christian

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[pro] Administrativia: Posting through gmame
by Hans Hübner 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hi, the post earlier today was made through gmame, and that post bounced at multiple subscriber's MTAs because it was considered spam. In order to avoid that, I'm not going to manually forward postings coming in through gmame anymore. Please consider subscribing to the mailing list directly (you can still read through gmame, but you need to post by email). Thanks, Hans

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