The Futhark Programming Language

Futhark is a purely functional data-parallel programming language in the ML family. Its optimising compiler is able to compile it to typically very efficient GPU code. The language and compiler are developed at DIKU at the University of Copenhagen, originally as part of the HIPERFIT centre. The language and compiler are quite stable and suitable for practical programming.

For more information, see:

• Installation instructions

• The main website

• Parallel Programming in Futhark, an extensive introduction and guide

• The Futhark User's Guide

• Documentation for the built-in prelude

• Futhark libraries

Hacking

We try to make use of GitHub issues for organising our work. Issues tagged with good first issue do not require deep knowledge of the code base.

Testing

Run futhark test tests to check how well we're doing. Use futhark test -t if you're in a hurry and only want to check that all the tests type-check.