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saganus
This looks very interesting.

Any way we can download some code to test this out or is this still unpublished code?

jimc39
The work we describe here is our research prototype, I'm currently working towards making the code base more stable before open sourcing. The plan is to release the code over the coming months.

Feel free to track our progress here - https://github.com/aardvark-systems/tornado

fbristow
Here's another project that's providing GPU access from Java code: https://github.com/pcpratts/rootbeer1
nsxwolf
Too bad it's CUDA and not OpenCL. I wonder what the rationale was. Seems natural to use an open GPGPU framework for a Java application.
RussianCow
Probably just because Nvidia cards dominate the market for most GPGPU use cases.
sp332
OpenCL is cross-platform, so it would support nvidia, ATI, Intel, CPUs, etc.
dkersten
AFAIK only OpenCL 1.1 (or 1.2?) is available on nvidia though, not OpenCL 2.0 or 2.1. So, unfortunately, if you want to support nvidia (eg AWS GPU instances), then OpenCL may not be the best choice :-(