[bradcray]

These are great questions, and ones we’re very curious about as well. I don’t believe that our current Chapel team has much experience programming NNs and LLMs, having focused on other areas. That said, I’m also not aware of any intrinsic barriers to implementing such algorithms in a portable way within Chapel, potentially calling out to vendor-optimized implementations when available and appropriate.

If you, or others, would be interested in exploring this topic, we’d be very interested in either partnering with you or supporting your efforts.

(Also see Engin's response about programming tensor cores for some thematically related thoughts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020703 )