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Finite Field Assembly: A Language for Emulating GPUs on CPU

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40 points muragekibicho | 3 comments | 14 Jan 25 09:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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muragekibicho ◴[14 Jan 25 09:35 UTC] No.42695415[source]▶
Introduction : Finite Field Assembly is a programming language that lets you emulate GPUs on CPUs

It's a CUDA alternative that uses finite field theory to convert GPU kernels to prime number fields.

Finite Field is the primary data structure : FF-asm is a CUDA alternative designed for computations over finite fields.

Recursive computing support : not cache-aware vectorization, not parallelization, but performing a calculation inside a calculation inside another calculation.

Extension of C89 - runs everywhere gcc is available. Context : I'm getting my math PhD and I built this language around my area of expertise, Number Theory and Finite Fields.

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zeroq ◴[18 Jan 25 00:12 UTC] No.42744591[source]▶
I've read this and I've seen the site, and I still have no idea what it is, what's the application and why should I be interested.

Additionally I've tried earlier chapters and they are behind a paywall.

You need a better introduction.

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1. pizza ◴[18 Jan 25 00:59 UTC] No.42744814[source]▶
This is phrased in a kind of demanding way to an author who has been kind enough to share their novel work with us. Are you sure you spent enough time trying to understand?
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2. Conscat ◴[18 Jan 25 01:15 UTC] No.42744892[source]▶
It seems that pretty much everybody here is confused by this article. One user even accused it of LLM plagiarism, which is pretty telling in my opinion.

I for one have no clue what anything I read in there is supposed to mean. Emulating a GPU's semantics on a CPU is a topic which I thought I had a decent grasp on, but everything from the stated goals at the top of this article to the example code makes no sense to me.

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3. pizza ◴[18 Jan 25 01:37 UTC] No.42744998[source]▶
It just seems like residue numbering systems computation, which I'm already working with.