Hi,

 > I still have some polishing to do for the autotuner, so that it indeed
> print the same thing as viennacl-info. The problem of the MIC is that I
> have aaaaabsolutely ZERO idea of how to prune profiles. We can try, with
> the GPU configuration so that it remains tractable, but I don't
> guarantee any good result :P

It's still questionable whether the current OpenCL SDK for MIC is able 
to provide any performance at all...


> Nice for the K20X :) I still have to work out things though, to make
> sure #pragma unroll is always called on NVidia Hardware, and never
> called on AMD hardware... Performing an extensive search just creates so
> many constraints.
> I'll send an update when I consider the autotuner is ready for the K20X
> and the MIC...

Good, I'll arrange things on the K20X machine in the meanwhile...


>     We should document this, yes. However, I don't know whether we can
>     reliably warn about this. It may even be driver or OS dependent.
>
>
> Hmm, true that I should pass this specific benchmark to codeXL, to know
> where the bad performance comes from. My guess for now is that it comes
> from channel conflict...

That must be more than just a conflict - a full channel war ;-)


> Do you still plan to make a GUI for the Autotuner. I'm realizing that
> this could be a really nice feature, since it allows one to freely
> choose the parameter space ...

Yes, I do! I'll write it right after the 1.5.0 release.

Best regards,
Karli


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