On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 11:09:39 -0400
Erik Schnetter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Portable Computing Language (pocl) v0.8 released
> 
> Pocl's goal is to become an efficient open source (MIT-licensed)
> implementation of the OpenCL 1.2 (and soon OpenCL 2.0) standard.
> 
> In addition to producing an easily portable open-source OpenCL
> implementation, another major goal of this 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 transform kernels into work-group
> functions with multiple work-items, 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/Clang 3.3, employs inner loop
> parallelization in the kernel compiler, uses Vecmathlib for
> inlineable efficient math library implementations, contains plenty of
> bug fixes, and provides several new OpenCL API implementations.
> 
> We consider pocl ready for wider scale testing, although the OpenCL
> 1.2 standard is not yet fully implemented, and it contains known
> bugs. The pocl 0.8 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, VexCL test cases, Luxmark v2.0, and
> most of the AMD APP SDK v2.8 OpenCL samples, among others.
> 
> 
> 
> Links
> -----
> Home page:         http://pocl.sourceforge.net/
> This announcement: http://pocl.sourceforge.net/pocl-0.8.html
> Change log:        http://pocl.sourceforge.net/downloads/CHANGES
> Download:          http://pocl.sourceforge.net/downloads
> 
> 
> 
> The pocl developers
> August 2013
> 

Great ;-)

Oliver

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