Hacker News with Generative AI: GPU Computing

I want a good parallel computer (raphlinus.github.io)
The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU, depending on workload. For real-time graphics rendering and machine learning, you are enjoying that power, and doing those workloads on a CPU is not viable. Why aren’t we exploiting that power for other workloads? What prevents a GPU from being a more general purpose computer?

GPU Computing, Parallel Computing, Hardware

233 points by raphlinus 36 days ago | 194 comments

Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs (tinyhack.com)
I recently helped a company recover their data from the Akira ransomware without paying the ransom. I’m sharing how I did it, along with the full source code.

Cybersecurity, Ransomware, Data Recovery, GPU Computing

257 points by costco 43 days ago | 58 comments

Datoviz: High-Performance GPU Scientific Visualization Library with Vulkan (khronos.org)
Datoviz is a cross-platform, open-source, high-performance GPU scientific data visualization library designed for interactive exploration of large datasets.

Data Visualization, Scientific Computing, Open Source, GPU Computing, Vulkan

6 points by rossant 43 days ago | 1 comments

Rust-CUDA Project Restarted for Enabling Nvidia CUDA Kernels Within Rust Code (phoronix.com)
The open-source Rust CUDA project has been "rebooted" to get back onto the effort of allowing NVIDIA CUDA compute kernels to be coded within the Rust programming language.

Rust, CUDA, Programming Languages, GPU Computing, Open Source

5 points by LinuxBender 83 days ago | 1 comments

Beating cuBLAS in Single-Precision General Matrix Multiplication (salykova.github.io)
This project is inspired by the outstanding works of Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Scott Gray, Horace He, Philippe Tillet, Jeremy Howard, Lei Mao and the best CUDA hackers from the GPU MODE community (Discord server). A special thanks to Mark Saroufim and Andreas Köpf for running GPU MODE and all you’ve done for the community.

GPU Computing, Machine Learning, Linear Algebra, Performance Optimization

98 points by skidrow 101 days ago | 8 comments

HipScript enables CUDA to run inside web browsers (phoronix.com)
HipScript is a new open-source project that allows for compiling and running AMD HIP and NVIDIA CUDA code within web browsers by leveraging WebAssembly and WebGPU.

Web Development, Open Source, GPU Computing, WebAssembly

12 points by astlouis44 109 days ago | 1 comments

What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing (2023) (codingconfessions.com)
Most programmers have an intimate understanding of CPUs and sequential programming because they grow up writing code for the CPU, but many are less familiar with the inner workings of GPUs and what makes them so special. Over the past decade, GPUs have become incredibly important because of their pervasive use in deep learning. Today, it is essential for every software engineer to possess a basic understanding of how they work.

GPU Computing, Software Development, Deep Learning

179 points by mooreds 173 days ago | 44 comments

CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU (github.com/cupy)
CuPy is a NumPy/SciPy-compatible array library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python.