Portable OpenCL aims to be an efficient open source (MIT-licensed) implementation of the OpenCL 1.2 standard.
In addition to producing an easily portable open source OpenCL implementation, another major goal of the project is improving performance portability of OpenCL programs with compiler optimizations, reducing the need for target-dependent manual optimizations. At the core of pocl is the kernel compiler that consists of a set of LLVM passes used to statically generate multiple work-item work group functions of kernels, even in the presence of work-group barriers. These functions are suitable for parallelization in multiple ways (SIMD, VLIW, superscalar,...). This release adds support for LLVM 3.2, generating the work group functions using simple (parallel) loop structures, fixes to make the pocl work on ppc32, ppc64 and armv7. Initial Cell SPU support has also been added (very experimental!) to this release as an example of an heterogeneous pocl device driver. Even though the OpenCL 1.2 standard is not yet implemented fully and it contains known bugs, we consider pocl ready for wider scale testing. The pocl 0.7 test suite compiles and runs most of the ViennaCL 1.3.1 examples, Rodinia 2.0.1 benchmarks, Parboil benchmarks, OpenCL Programming Guide book samples and the AMD APP SDK v2.8 OpenCL samples. Acknowledgements ---------------- We'd like to thank the Radio Implementation Research Team from Nokia Research Center which sponsored the development of this release. Much appreciated! Links ----- Home page: http://pocl.sourceforge.net/ This announcement: http://pocl.sourceforge.net/downloads/ANNOUNCEMENT Change log: http://pocl.sourceforge.net/downloads/CHANGES Download: http://pocl.sourceforge.net/downloads -- Pekka ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ pocl-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pocl-devel
