Intel Develops A SPIR-V Translator To Run On The CPU

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Develops A SPIR-V Translator To Run On The CPU

It's not a CPU-based Vulkan implementation or along those lines, but Intel's newest open-source project allows converting SPIR-V into optimized instructions for running on modern CPUs...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-SPIR-V-To-ISPC

[chuckula]

This is a very useful idea for lots of converged applications that might do some processing on the CPU, some on a GPU, some on a particular FPGA, etc. Being able to process a single IR makes all of this easier.

[boboviz]

Vulkan seems to be the coolest guy around