Beignet 1.1.1 Released, Still No Signs Of Intel Linux OpenCL 2.0 Nearing Reality

[reneleonhardt]

The OpenCL 2.0 branch has a different (maybe new) name, OCL20.
The Git log shows 69 commits in the 2 months to the Beignet 1.1.1 release, and 99 after 2015-10-08:

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/beignet -b OCL20
cd beignet
git log --pretty=format:'' --after='2015-08-07' --until='2015-10-08' | wc -l  # 69
git log --pretty=format:'' --after='2015-10-08' | wc -l  # 99

I'm wondering why the new GEGL-OpenCL effort doesn't include Intel in the to-do list...

[gururise]

As far as i know.. OpenCL 2.0 is only working on AMD Proprietary drivers on Linux at the moment. Intel is at OpenCL1.2 and AMD Radeon OSS drivers (r600g) have a gallium 3d opencl driver (pretty sure thats at version 1.1 or 1.2 as well). So pretty much stuck with AMD proprietary drivers if you want OpenCL 2.0 at the moment on Linux. Its a shame, because the CUDA monopoly is growing stronger every day and by the time Intel & AMD catch up, it may be too late.

[caligula]

What's the status of OpenCL 2.0 on Linux in general? Does any of the drivers really support it nicely? Or do they crash? AFAIK the scientific community still pretty much relies on CUDA. OpenCL 2.0 is mandatory for nested parallelism.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

We might not need OpenCL 2 support if we can get some nice C++ to spirv frontends and backends.

SPIR is built on OpenCL 2.x.

[vadix]

We might not need OpenCL 2 support if we can get some nice C++ to spirv frontends and backends.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Beignet 1.1.1 Released, Still No Signs Of Intel Linux OpenCL 2.0 Nearing Reality

The Intel China developers have released the newest point release of Beignet for open-source OpenCL acceleration on Linux for Intel HD/Iris Graphics hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Beignet-1.1.1-Released