Futhark (programming language)

<p>Futhark is a <a href="/facts/Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_programming_languages/ubIddUMB">multi-paradigm</a>, <a href="/facts/High-level_programming_language/smjECUhx">high-level</a>, <a href="/facts/Functional_programming/cdxqPEIM">functional</a>, <a href="/facts/Data_parallelism/SkYoL91S">data parallel</a>, <a href="/facts/Array_programming/gFx1SxIY">array</a> <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a>. It is a <a href="/facts/Dialect_(computing)/cWTYbgWa">dialect</a> of the language <a href="/facts/ML_(programming_language)/RfwxASRF">ML</a>, originally developed at <a href="/facts/UCPH_Department_of_Computer_Science/vkkLTnwU">UCPH Department of Computer Science</a> (DIKU) as part of the HIPERFIT project. It focuses on enabling data parallel programs written in a functional style to be executed with high performance on <a href="/facts/Massively_parallel/dX7W2Nxs">massively parallel</a> hardware, especially <a href="/facts/Graphics_processing_unit/PTK1RQVp">graphics processing units</a> (GPUs). Futhark is strongly inspired by <a href="/facts/NESL/dfXmdQE1">NESL</a>, and its implementation uses a variant of the <a href="/facts/Flattening_transformation/6RSwUCur">flattening transformation</a>, but imposes constraints on how parallelism can be expressed in order to enable more aggressive compiler optimisations. In particular, irregular nested data parallelism is not supported. It is <a href="/facts/Free_and_open-source_software/1cHtjLCB">free and open-source software</a> released under an <a href="/facts/ISC_license/JBUVCH3l">ISC license</a>. 
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