JavaScript- (Not Python-) Defined Neutral Networks’ Deno 1.8 Supports WebGPU

InfoQ reports:Deno 1.8 recently shipped with plenty of new features, including WebGPU support, internationalization APIs, stabilized import maps, support for fetching private modules, and more. The Deno permissions API is now stable. Deno 1.8 additionally ships with TypeScript 4.2. The release note explained the motivation behind the support for the WebGPU APIs as follows: These days, most neural networks are defined in Python with the computation offloaded to GPUs. We believe JavaScript, instead of Python, could act as an ideal language for expressing mathematical ideas if the proper infrastructure existed. Providing WebGPU support out-of-the-box in Deno is a step in this direction. Our goal is to run Tensorflow.js on Deno, with GPU acceleration. We expect this to be achieved in the coming weeks or months. WebGPU is an API originally proposed by Apple that exposes the GPU computation functionality available on many devices. WebGPU may provide better performance than WebGL in tasks that benefit from parallel processingas often occurs in scientific computing, machine learning, graphics and games development… Deno users can upgrade by running deno upgrade in a terminal.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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