Dagger's Supported Features
This is the list of features that Dagger currently supports, as well as their
status. If you find a bug in any of the "Great Support" features, please open
an issue - for "Moderate Support" or "Poor Support", pull requests are always
welcome!
Feature
Status
Notes
Contact (JuliaLang Slack)
Multithreading
✔️ Great Support
@jpsamaroo
Distributed
⚠️ Moderate Support
Thread-safety issues #101
@jpsamaroo
Fault Tolerance
❌ Poor Support
Sometimes unreliable, may fail to recover in trivial cases
@jpsamaroo
Checkpointing
⚠️ Moderate Support
Inconvenient API
@jpsamaroo
Feature
Status
Notes
Contact (JuliaLang Slack)
Broadcast
✔️ Great Support
@jpsamaroo
Map/Reduce
✔️ Great Support
@jpsamaroo
Indexing/Slicing
❌ Poor Support
Incorrect/broken slicing, poor performance
@jpsamaroo
Matmul
⚠️ Moderate Support
Some incorrect boundschecks (for syrk
)
@Rabab53
Cholesky
⚠️ Moderate Support
Missing repartitioning support
@Rabab53
Sparse Arrays
❌ Poor Support
Needs more supported operations and tests
@jpsamaroo
Feature
Status
Notes
Contact (JuliaLang Slack)
NVIDIA GPUs
✔️ Great Support
@jpsamaroo
AMD GPUs
✔️ Great Support
@jpsamaroo
Apple GPUs
⚠️ Moderate Support
Missing linalg operations
@jpsamaroo or @Rabab53
Intel GPUs
⚠️ Moderate Support
Missing linalg operations
@jpsamaroo or @Rabab53
KernelAbstractions Integration
⚠️ Moderate Support
Missing synchronization optimizations
@jpsamaroo
This is the list of features and improvements that are planned for Dagger.
Please consider contributing an improvement if you feel able to do so!
Feature
Issue/PR #
Help Wanted
Testers Wanted
Details
Contact (JuliaLang Slack)
LU Factorization
None
⚠️ WIP, need pivoting impl.
N/A
LU factorization for DArray
@Rabab53
QR Factorization
#529
⚠️ WIP
N/A
QR factorization for DArray
@fda-tome
Triangular Solve
None
⚠️ WIP
N/A
Triangular solve (A \ B
) and ldiv
for DArray
@Rabab53
SVD
None
✔️
N/A
SVD for DArray
@fda-tome or @Rabab53
Feature
Issue/PR #
Help Wanted
Testers Wanted
Details
Contact (JuliaLang Slack)
Datadeps Stencil Helper
None
✔️
N/A
Helper for stencil computations which lowers to Datadeps
@jpsamaroo
Datadeps MPI Support
None
⚠️ WIP
✔️
Datadeps support for automatic MPI usage
@fda-tome or @jpsamaroo
Datadeps Memory Awareness
None
✔️
N/A
Datadeps support for memory awareness and OOM avoidance
@fda-tome or @jpsamaroo
Feature
Issue/PR #
Help Wanted
Testers Wanted
Details
Contact (JuliaLang Slack)
GPU Stream Scheduler
None
✔️
N/A
Scheduler for assigning tasks to different streams on the same GPU device
@jpsamaroo
KernelAbstractions Backend
None
✔️
N/A
KA DaggerBackend for SPMD programming
@jpsamaroo