“#Keating was still the prime minister, #Kennett was premier of #Victoria. The highest selling song of the year in this country was Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio. Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers had been out for four years but still held sway over the entire universe.

There was a band in #Sydney called Def FX who were winning awards and telling us in song titles and lyrics – with a metal/hiphop backbeat – about "ritual", "magik" and "psychoactives".

This was what was in the wind. It was commercial music, the #TripleJ staple of the day, and #Cranky came and went so very quickly within all of this with 2 Bugs and a song called Australia Don't Become America, otherwise known as "Straya Don Come Merica". It was influenced by the above – the sound and the fury – and in particular by Rage Against The Machine, Disposible Heroes of Hiphroprisy, Public Enemy, Pop Will Eat Itself and EMF”

#AusMusic / #HipRock / #hip / #band <https://archive.md/kOQ7X> / <https://smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-crate-cranky-2-bugs-ep-1995-20150618-ghqx0p.html>

Even now, Thrust as a dependency is one of the main reason why we have a #CUDA backend, a #HIP / #ROCm backend and a pure #CPU backend in #GPUSPH, but not a #SYCL or #OneAPI backend (which would allow us to extend hardware support to #Intel GPUs). <https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.8313>

This is also one of the reason why we implemented our own #BLAS routines when we introduced the semi-implicit integrator. A side-effect of this choice is that it allowed us to develop the improved #BiCGSTAB that I've had the opportunity to mention before <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111413>. Sometimes I do wonder if it would be appropriate to “excorporate” it into its own library for general use, since it's something that would benefit others. OTOH, this one was developed specifically for GPUSPH and it's tightly integrated with the rest of it (including its support for multi-GPU), and refactoring to turn it into a library like cuBLAS is

a. too much effort
b. probably not worth it.

Again, following @eniko's original thread, it's really not that hard to roll your own, and probably less time consuming than trying to wrangle your way through an API that may or may not fit your needs.

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