I want a good parallel language [video]

Raph and I also talked about this subject here: https://www.popovit.ch/interviews/raph-levien-simd The discussion covers things at a relatively basic level as we wanted it to be accessible to a wide audience. So we explain SIMD vs SIMT, predication, multiversioning, and some more.

Raph is a super nice guy and a pleasure to talk to. I'm glad we have people like him around!

SQL.

It is a joke, but an SQL engine can be massively parallel. You just don't know it, it just gives you what you want. And in many ways the operations resembles what you do for example in CUDA.

CUDA backend for DuckDB or Trino would be one of my go-to projects if i was laid off.

There were a few languages designed specifically for parallel computing spurred by DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems project. While Fortress is dead, Chapel is still being developed.

Went in thinking "Have you heard of Go?"... but this turned out to be about GPU computing.

Unfortunately his microphone did not cooperate.