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Is there a Java library for accelerated vector computations?

I'm looking for a Java lib that permits to do some fast computations with vector (and maybe matrices too).

By fast I mean that it takes advantage of GPU processing and/or SSE instructions. I'm wondering if it can be possible to find something more portable as possible. I recognize that the JVM provides a thick abstraction layer of the hardware.

I've come across JCUDA, but there's a drawback: on a computer without an Nnvidia graphic card it should be run in emulation mode (so I come to believe it will be not efficient as expected). Has anyone already tried it?

Solution

  • What about OpenCL? It should provide you a good starting point for this kind of optimized operations.

    There exist many bindings for Java, starting from jocl (but take a loot also at JavaCL or LWJGL that added support from 2.6)