What is cuTile BASIC?

cuTile BASIC is an implementation of the CUDA Tile programming model in the BASIC programming language .

BASIC stands for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. BASIC is a programming language designed, in the 1960s, for ease-of-use and interactive programming. It was popular among early microcomputer programmers like William Gates III.

cuTile BASIC was released as an April Fools' joke . It is a real, if toy, implementation of the programming model and a demonstration of its generality. You can run the vector-addition cuTile BASIC kernel below on a B200 GPU using this Modal Notebook . cuTile BASIC was developed, in part, via such Notebooks.

10 REM Vector Add: C = A + B
20 INPUT N, A(), B()
30 DIM A(N), B(N), C(N)
40 TILE A(128), B(128), C(128)
50 LET C(BID) = A(BID) + B(BID)
60 OUTPUT C
70 END