# Anything like Distributions.jl for GPU?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anything-like-distributions-jl-for-gpu/17147
**Category:** Statistics
**Created:** [November 4, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anything-like-distributions-jl-for-gpu/17147 "2018-11-04T20:20:41Z")
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### Author: ![jonathanBieler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@jonathanBieler](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jonathanBieler)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/anything-like-distributions-jl-for-gpu/17147/3 "2018-11-05T14:48:51Z")

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The issue might be that Distributions.jl still uses some C libraries (Rmath, openspecfun). There was some discussion to port them in [Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/where-to-discuss-replacement-of-rmath/9671) but I’m not sure what’s the status of that.

Sometimes I just translate scipy code for probability distributions when I need automatic differentiation.

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