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by chrisaycock 77 days ago
std::execution is very interesting, but will be difficult to get started with, as cautioned by Sutter. This HPC Wire article demonstrates how to use standard C++ to benefit from asynchronously parallel computation on both CUDA and MPI:

https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/12/05/new-c-sender-library-enab...

Overlapping communication and computation has been a common technique for decades in high-performance computing to "hide latency", which leads to better scaling. Now standard C++ can be used to express parallel algorithms without tying to a specific scheduler.

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NVidia is the main sponsor of this kind of work, and a few key figures are nowadays on their payroll.