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VkFFT – Vulkan Fast Fourier Transform Library

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Resurfaced independently across 2 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
5
submitters
3
observed span
2020–2023
peak thread · 127 comments
220 pts
latest 20+ return · 2023-08-02
173 pts

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2007–2026

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If I were a hiring person at AMD or Intel, I'd shortlist this guy for a job, as they need help competing against the headstart CUDA has in the GPU-base compute space.

zdw·220-point thread·

Hello, I am the author of VkFFT, Tolmachev Dmitrii. I remember VkFFT got a lot of initial traction thanks to Hacker News three years ago. Back then VkFFT was a simple collection of pre-made shaders for powers of two FFTs. Nowadays it is based on the runtime code generation and optimization platform that supports all the mentioned backends, has a wide range of implemented algorithms (some of which are not even present in other codes) to cover all system sizes…

DTolm·173-point thread·

Hello! Since the last post VkFFT has experienced a number of huge improvements and optimizations. Namely: -It now supports sequences up to 2^32 in all dimensions (algorithmically, in reality limited to allocatable memory size, switch to 64-bit addressing scheme is planned for future release) -configurations optimized for bigger range of systems and vendors -benchmarked Radeon VII and RTX 3080, shows that FFT is extremely bandwidth limited on modern GPUs -VkFFT is able to match and outperform cuFFT on the whole…

DTolm·123-point thread·

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