"CuLi and test applications will be published on the webserver of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz under https://version.zdv.uni-mainz.de"

but the link is dead. Anyone know where this can be found? It's a really interesting project that has practical implications for a little hobby project I'm working on.

are you sure about the practical implications? Quoting the abstract: "At the moment, Lisp programs running on CPUs outperform Lisp programs on GPUs"

You're right it seems - as written, the parsing overhead from the requirement to make the entire system run the GPU makes it impractical. A hybrid system could outperform CPU or GPU alone.

What I really want is a scheme->GLSL shader compiler - much narrower and more tractable.

This is likely unrelated, but your comment makes me think of clasp: https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp