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CPU/GPU portable array, parallel_for/parallel_reduce in Julia for productive science. Funded by the US DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR).

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  • JACC.Multi.copy for multiple GPUs
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#450 ·

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  • Multi.parallel_reduce 2D returns wrong sum when M spans more than 16 blocks
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#449 ·

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  • Add test for `Unmanaged` reduce workspace
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#419 ·

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  • Improve 2D coalescing for Metal and oneAPI backends
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#418 ·

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  • Create kernel objects with `@metal launch=false ...` following AMDGPU extension
    May be free again @williamfgc claimed this 65 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement Metal

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#399 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add custom reduction tests
    May be free again @PhilipFackler claimed this 72 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#395 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Feature request: axis-wise parallel_reduce (reduce along a dimension, returning a vector) (Sunny.jl)
    May be free again @PhilipFackler claimed this 81 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#384 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Implement `parallel_scan`
    May be free again @PhilipFackler claimed this 94 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#382 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add internal option to switch between threads implementations
    May be free again @PhilipFackler claimed this 104 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#372 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Add consumer/functional tests
    May be free again @PhilipFackler claimed this 115 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#371 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Include TestEnv.jl to make local testing easier
    May be free again @PhilipFackler claimed this 115 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#370 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Sunny.jl generalized Hermitian-definite eigensolver
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#304 ·

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  • Sunny.jl: shared memory for temporary values
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#303 ·

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  • Update JACC.Multi and JACC.Async APIs to be consistent with base API
    May be free again @PhilipFackler claimed this 320 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#286 · 1 assignee ·

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  • JACC.Multi.BLAS level 1 implentations
    May be free again @PhilipFackler claimed this 437 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#247 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Function to return launch spec for a kernel without launching
    May be free again @PhilipFackler claimed this 474 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#236 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Support for mixed precision in JACC.parallel_reduce
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#234 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Add more tests for atomic operations
    May be free again @PhilipFackler claimed this 550 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#217 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Explore the use of `@inline` for kernel performance
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#145 ·

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  • Struct of arrays
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#51 · 4 comments · 1 reaction ·

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  • Brainstorm performance tests as part of CI (performance degradation)
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#44 ·

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  • Test CUDA/HIP-aware MPI.jl
    Possibly taken @PhilipFackler claimed this 5 days ago. Open
    enhancement

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#445 · 2 assignees ·

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  • Run CI tests on Multi-GPU Systems
    Possibly taken @williamfgc claimed this 12 days ago. Open

    JuliaGPU/JACC.jl#434 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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