About 8 years ago an NVIDIA developer released a tool called Copperhead that let you write CUDA kernels in straight Python that were then compiled to C, no "C-in-a-string" like is shown here. I always thought it was so elegant and had great potential, and I introduced a lot of people in my circle to it, but then it seems NVIDIA buried it.
This blog post is great, and we need these kind of tools for sure, but we also need high level expressibility that doesn't require writing kernels in C. I know there are other projects that have taken up that cause, but it would be great to see NVIDIA double down on something like Copperhead.
This blog post is great, and we need these kind of tools for sure, but we also need high level expressibility that doesn't require writing kernels in C. I know there are other projects that have taken up that cause, but it would be great to see NVIDIA double down on something like Copperhead.