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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