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Embedded language for high-performance array computations
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Embedded language for high-performance array computations

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# High-performance parallel arrays for Haskell



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`Data.Array.Accelerate` defines an embedded language of array computations for high-performance computing in Haskell. Computations on multi-dimensional, regular arrays are expressed in the form of parameterised collective operations (such as maps, reductions, and permutations). These computations are online-compiled and executed on a range of architectures.



For more details, see our papers:



 * [Accelerating Haskell Array Codes with Multicore GPUs][CKLM+11]

 * [Optimising Purely Functional GPU Programs][MCKL13] ([slides][MCKL13-slides])

 * [Embedding Foreign Code][CMCK14]

 * [Type-safe Runtime Code Generation: Accelerate to LLVM][MCGN15] ([slides][MCGN15-slides]) ([video][MCGN15-video])

 * [Streaming Irregular Arrays][CMCK17] ([video][CMCK17-video])



There are also slides from some fairly recent presentations:



 * [Embedded Languages for High-Performance Computing in Haskell][Embedded]

 * [GPGPU Programming in Haskell with Accelerate][YLJ13-slides] ([video][YLJ13-video]) ([workshop][YLJ13-workshop])



Chapter 6 of Simon Marlow's book [Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell][Mar13] contains a tutorial introduction to Accelerate.



[Trevor's PhD thesis][Trevor-thesis] details the design and implementation of frontend optimisations and CUDA backend.



**Table of Contents**



- [An Embedded Language for Accelerated Array Computations](#an-embedded-language-for-accelerated-array-computations)

  - [A simple example](#a-simple-example)

  - [Availability](#availability)

  - [Additional components](#additional-components)

  - [Requirements](#requirements)

  - [Documentation](#documentation)

  - [Examples](#examples)

  - [Who are we?](#who-are-we)

  - [Mailing list and contacts](#mailing-list-and-contacts)

  - [Citing Accelerate](#citing-accelerate)

  - [What's missing?](#whats-missing)



A simple example

----------------



As a simple example, consider the computation of a dot product of two vectors of single-precision floating-point numbers:



    dotp :: Acc (Vector Float) -> Acc (Vector Float) -> Acc (Scalar Float)

    dotp xs ys = fold (+) 0 (zipWith (*) xs ys)



Except for the type, this code is almost the same as the corresponding Haskell code on lists of floats. The types indicate that the computation may be online-compiled for performance; for example, using `Data.Array.Accelerate.LLVM.PTX.run` it may be on-the-fly off-loaded to a GPU.



Availability

------------



Package _Accelerate_ is available from:



 * Hackage: [accelerate][Hackage] - install with `cabal install accelerate`

 * GitHub: [AccelerateHS/accelerate][GitHub] - get the source with `git clone https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate.git` 



To install the Haskell toolchain try [GHCup](https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/).



Additional components

---------------------



The following supported add-ons are available as separate packages:



  * [accelerate-llvm-native][accelerate-llvm-native]: Backend targeting multicore CPUs

  * [accelerate-llvm-ptx][accelerate-llvm-ptx]: Backend targeting CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs. Requires a GPU with compute capability 2.0 or greater (see the [table on Wikipedia][wiki-cc])

  * [accelerate-examples][accelerate-examples]: Computational kernels and applications showcasing the use of Accelerate as well as a regression test suite (supporting function and performance testing)

  * Conversion between various formats:

    * [accelerate-io](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-io): For copying data directly between raw pointers

    * [accelerate-io-array](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-io-array): Immutable arrays

    * [accelerate-io-bmp](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-io-bmp): Uncompressed BMP image files

    * [accelerate-io-bytestring](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-io-bytestring): Compact, immutable binary data

    * [accelerate-io-cereal](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-io-cereal): Binary serialisation of arrays using [cereal](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cereal)

    * [accelerate-io-JuicyPixels](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-io-JuicyPixels): Images in various pixel formats

    * [accelerate-io-repa](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-io-repa): Another Haskell library for high-performance parallel arrays

    * [accelerate-io-serialise](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-io-serialise): Binary serialisation of arrays using [serialise](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/serialise)

    * [accelerate-io-vector](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate-io-vector): Efficient boxed and unboxed one-dimensional arrays

  * [accelerate-fft][accelerate-fft]: Fast Fourier transform implementation, with FFI bindings to optimised implementations

  * [accelerate-blas][accelerate-blas]: BLAS and LAPACK operations, with FFI bindings to optimised implementations

  * [accelerate-bignum][accelerate-bignum]: Fixed-width large integer arithmetic

  * [colour-accelerate][colour-accelerate]: Colour representations in Accelerate (RGB, sRGB, HSV, and HSL)

  * [containers-accelerate](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers-accelerate): Hashing-based container types

  * [gloss-accelerate][gloss-accelerate]: Generate [gloss][gloss] pictures from Accelerate

  * [gloss-raster-accelerate][gloss-raster-accelerate]: Parallel rendering of raster images and animations

  * [hashable-accelerate](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hashable-accelerate): A class for types which can be converted into a hash value

  * [lens-accelerate][lens-accelerate]: [Lens][lens] operators for Accelerate types

  * [linear-accelerate][linear-accelerate]: [Linear][linear] vector spaces in Accelerate

  * [mwc-random-accelerate][mwc-random-accelerate]: Generate Accelerate arrays filled with high quality pseudorandom numbers

  * [numeric-prelude-accelerate][numeric-prelude-accelerate]: Lifting the [numeric-prelude][numeric-prelude] to Accelerate

  * [wigner-ville-accelerate](https://github.com/Haskell-mouse/wigner-ville-accelerate): Wigner-Ville time-frequency distribution.



Install them from Hackage with `cabal install PACKAGENAME`.



Documentation

-------------



  * Haddock documentation is included and linked with the individual package releases on [Hackage][Hackage].

  

  * The idea behind the HOAS (higher-order abstract syntax) to de-Bruijn conversion used in the library is [described separately][HOAS-conv].



Examples

--------



### accelerate-examples



The [accelerate-examples][accelerate-examples] package provides a range of computational kernels and a few complete applications. To install these from Hackage, issue `cabal install accelerate-examples`. The examples include:



  * An implementation of [canny edge detection][wiki-canny]

  * An interactive [mandelbrot set][wiki-mandelbrot] generator

  * An [N-body simulation][wiki-nbody] of gravitational attraction between solid particles

  * An implementation of the [PageRank][wiki-pagerank] algorithm

  * A simple [ray-tracer][wiki-raytracing]

  * A particle based simulation of stable fluid flows

  * A cellular automata simulation

  * A "password recovery" tool, for dictionary lookup of MD5 hashes



[![Mandelbrot](https://i.imgur.com/5Tbsp1j.jpg "accelerate-mandelbrot")](https://i.imgur.com/RgXRqsc.jpg)

[![Raytracer](https://i.imgur.com/7ohhKm9.jpg "accelerate-ray")](https://i.imgur.com/ZNEGEJK.jpg)



### LULESH



[LULESH-accelerate][lulesh-accelerate] is in implementation of the Livermore Unstructured Lagrangian Explicit Shock Hydrodynamics (LULESH) mini-app. [LULESH][LULESH] represents a typical hydrodynamics code such as [ALE3D][ALE3D], but is a highly simplified application, hard-coded to solve the Sedov blast problem on an unstructured hexahedron mesh.



![LULESH mesh](https://i.imgur.com/bIkODKd.jpg)



### Additional examples



Accelerate users have also built some substantial applications of their own.

Please feel free to add your own examples!



  * Jonathan Fraser, [GPUVAC](https://github.com/GeneralFusion/gpuvac): An explicit advection magnetohydrodynamics simulation

  * David van Balen, [Sudokus](https://github.com/dpvanbalen/Sudokus): A sudoku solver

  * Trevor L. McDonell, [lol-accelerate][lol-accelerate]: A backend to the Λ ○ λ ([Lol][lol]) library for ring-based lattice cryptography

  * Henning Thielemann, [patch-image](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/patch-image): Combine a collage of overlapping images

  * apunktbau, [bildpunkt](https://github.com/abau/bildpunkt): A ray-marching distance field renderer

  * klarh, [hasdy](https://github.com/klarh/hasdy): Molecular dynamics in Haskell using Accelerate

  * Alexandros Gremm used Accelerate as part of the [2014 CSCS summer school](http://user.cscs.ch/blog/2014/cscs_usi_summer_school_2014_30_june_10_july_2014_in_serpiano_tessin/index.html) ([code](https://github.com/agremm/cscs))



Who are we?

-----------



The Accelerate team (past and present) consists of:



  * Manuel M T Chakravarty ([@mchakravarty])  

  * Gabriele Keller ([@gckeller])             

  * Trevor L. McDonell ([@tmcdonell])         

  * Robert Clifton-Everest ([@robeverest])    

  * Frederik M. Madsen ([@fmma])              

  * Ryan R. Newton ([@rrnewton])              

  * Joshua Meredith ([@JoshMeredith])         

  * Ben Lever ([@blever])                     

  * Sean Seefried ([@sseefried])              

  * Ivo Gabe de Wolff ([@ivogabe])            



The maintainer and principal developer of Accelerate is Trevor L.

McDonell .



Mailing list and contacts

-------------------------



  * Mailing list: [`[email protected]`](mailto:[email protected]) (discussions on both use and development are welcome)

  * Sign up for the mailing list at the [Accelerate Google Groups page][Google-Group]

  * Bug reports and issues tracking: [GitHub project page][Issues]

  * Chat with us on [gitter](https://gitter.im/AccelerateHS/Lobby)



Citing Accelerate

-----------------



If you use Accelerate for academic research, you are encouraged (though not

required) to cite the following papers:



  * Manuel M. T. Chakravarty, Gabriele Keller, Sean Lee, Trevor L. McDonell, and Vinod Grover.

    [Accelerating Haskell Array Codes with Multicore GPUs][CKLM+11].

    In _DAMP '11: Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming_, ACM, 2011.



  * Trevor L. McDonell, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty, Gabriele Keller, and Ben Lippmeier.

    [Optimising Purely Functional GPU Programs][MCKL13].

    In _ICFP '13: The 18th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming_, ACM, 2013.



  * Robert Clifton-Everest, Trevor L. McDonell, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty, and Gabriele Keller.

    [Embedding Foreign Code][CMCK14].

    In _PADL '14: The 16th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages_, Springer-Verlag, LNCS, 2014.



  * Trevor L. McDonell, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty, Vinod Grover, and Ryan R. Newton.

    [Type-safe Runtime Code Generation: Accelerate to LLVM][MCGN15].

    In _Haskell '15: The 8th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Haskell_, ACM, 2015.



  * Robert Clifton-Everest, Trevor L. McDonell, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty, and Gabriele Keller.

    [Streaming Irregular Arrays][CMCK17].

    In Haskell '17: The 10th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Haskell, ACM, 2017.



Accelerate is primarily developed by academics, so citations matter a lot to us.

As an added benefit, you increase Accelerate's exposure and potential user (and

developer!) base, which is a benefit to all users of Accelerate. Thanks in advance!



What's missing?

---------------



Here is a list of features that are currently missing:



 * Preliminary API (parts of the API may still change in subsequent releases)

 * Many more features... contact us!



  [@mchakravarty]:              https://github.com/mchakravarty

  [@gckeller]:                  https://github.com/gckeller

  [@tmcdonell]:                 https://github.com/tmcdonell

  [@robeverest]:                https://github.com/robeverest

  [@fmma]:                      https://github.com/fmma

  [@rrnewton]:                  https://github.com/rrnewton

  [@JoshMeredith]:              https://github.com/JoshMeredith

  [@blever]:                    https://github.com/blever

  [@sseefried]:                 https://github.com/sseefried

  [@ivogabe]:                   https://github.com/ivogabe



  [CKLM+11]:                    https://github.com/tmcdonell/tmcdonell.github.io/raw/master/papers/acc-cuda-damp2011.pdf

  [MCKL13]:                     https://github.com/tmcdonell/tmcdonell.github.io/raw/master/papers/acc-optim-icfp2013.pdf

  [MCKL13-slides]:              https://speakerdeck.com/tmcdonell/optimising-purely-functional-gpu-programs

  [CMCK14]:                     https://github.com/tmcdonell/tmcdonell.github.io/raw/master/papers/acc-ffi-padl2014.pdf

  [MCGN15]:                     https://github.com/tmcdonell/tmcdonell.github.io/raw/master/papers/acc-llvm-haskell2015.pdf

  [MCGN15-slides]:              https://speakerdeck.com/tmcdonell/type-safe-runtime-code-generation-accelerate-to-llvm

  [MCGN15-video]:               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snXhXA5noVc

  [HIW'09]:                     https://wiki.haskell.org/HaskellImplementorsWorkshop

  [CMCK17]:                     https://github.com/tmcdonell/tmcdonell.github.io/raw/master/papers/acc-seq2-haskell2017.pdf

  [CMCK17-video]:               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWSqp7AaNo

  [Mar13]:                      http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929

  [Embedded]:                   https://speakerdeck.com/mchakravarty/embedded-languages-for-high-performance-computing-in-haskell

  [Hackage]:                    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/accelerate

  [accelerate-cuda]:            https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-cuda

  [accelerate-examples]:        https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-examples

  [accelerate-io]:              https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-io

  [accelerate-fft]:             https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-fft

  [accelerate-blas]:            https://github.com/tmcdonell/accelerate-blas

  [accelerate-backend-kit]:     https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-backend-kit

  [accelerate-buildbot]:        https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-buildbot

  [accelerate-repa]:            https://github.com/blambo/accelerate-repa

  [accelerate-opencl]:          https://github.com/hiPERFIT/accelerate-opencl

  [accelerate-cabal]:           https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate/accelerate.cabal

  [accelerate-cuda-cabal]:      https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-cuda/accelerate-cuda.cabal

  [accelerate-llvm]:            https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-llvm

  [accelerate-llvm-native]:     https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-llvm

  [accelerate-llvm-ptx]:        https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate-llvm

  [accelerate-bignum]:          https://github.com/tmcdonell/accelerate-bignum

  [GitHub]:                     https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate

  [Wiki]:                       https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate/wiki

  [Issues]:                     https://github.com/AccelerateHS/accelerate/issues

  [Google-Group]:               http://groups.google.com/group/accelerate-haskell

  [HOAS-conv]:                  https://github.com/mchakravarty/hoas-conv

  

  [repa]:                       http://hackage.haskell.org/package/repa

  [wiki-cc]:                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA#Supported_GPUs

  [YLJ13-video]:                http://youtu.be/ARqE4yT2Z0o

  [YLJ13-slides]:               https://speakerdeck.com/tmcdonell/gpgpu-programming-in-haskell-with-accelerate

  [YLJ13-workshop]:             https://speakerdeck.com/tmcdonell/gpgpu-programming-in-haskell-with-accelerate-workshop

  [wiki-canny]:                 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canny_edge_detector

  [wiki-mandelbrot]:            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

  [wiki-nbody]:                 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body

  [wiki-raytracing]:            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing

  [wiki-pagerank]:              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagerank

  [Trevor-thesis]:              https://github.com/tmcdonell/tmcdonell.github.io/raw/master/papers/TrevorMcDonell_PhD_Thesis.pdf

  [colour-accelerate]:          https://github.com/tmcdonell/colour-accelerate

  [gloss]:                      https://hackage.haskell.org/package/gloss

  [gloss-accelerate]:           https://github.com/tmcdonell/gloss-accelerate

  [gloss-raster-accelerate]:    https://github.com/tmcdonell/gloss-raster-accelerate

  [lens]:                       https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens

  [lens-accelerate]:            https://github.com/tmcdonell/lens-accelerate

  [linear]:                     https://hackage.haskell.org/package/linear

  [linear-accelerate]:          https://github.com/tmcdonell/linear-accelerate

  [mwc-random-accelerate]:      https://github.com/tmcdonell/mwc-random-accelerate

  [numeric-prelude]:            https://hackage.haskell.org/package/numeric-prelude

  [numeric-prelude-accelerate]: https://github.com/tmcdonell/numeric-prelude-accelerate

  [LULESH]:                     https://codesign.llnl.gov/lulesh.php

  [ALE3D]:                      https://wci.llnl.gov/simulation/computer-codes/ale3d

  [lulesh-accelerate]:          https://github.com/tmcdonell/lulesh-accelerate

  [lol]:                        https://hackage.haskell.org/package/lol

  [lol-accelerate]:             https://github.com/tmcdonell/lol-accelerate