ArrayFire is an American software company that develops programming tools for parallel computing and graphics on

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(GPU) chipsets. Its products are particularly popular in the

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Products

The company's first major product was Jacket, a

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that extends

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with

GPGPU General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU, or less often GPGP) is the use of a graphics processing unit (GPU), which typically handles computation only for computer graphics, to perform computation in applications traditiona ...

capabilities on

CUDA CUDA (or Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for general purpose processing, an approach ...

-enabled

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GPUs, released in June 2008 (version 1.0 in January 2009). Jacket was followed by ArrayFire, a similar GPGPU extension for C,

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and Fortran. There are three versions available, one for CUDA GPUs, one for

OpenCL OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-progra ...

devices and another for regular CPUs. ArrayFire is partially funded by

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, who uses it in its "

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" dark web search software. Since version 3.4 the library is Open Source.

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