POCL 1.6-RC1 Released With Better CUDA Performance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: POCL 1.6-RC1 Released With Better CUDA Performance

POCL as the "Portable Computing Language" that implements OpenCL and allows it to function atop CPUs as well as CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs, HSA-supported AMD GPUs, and other possible back-ends, is preparing for a new feature release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=POCL-1.6-RC1-Released

[mannerov]

For those who wonder why OpenCL on CUDA, well, one reason is NVidia doesn't provide OpenCL on Tegra... Thanks POCL for filling the gap.

[kieffer]

The same is true on IBM power: While Nvidia provides an OpenCL driver for PPC64le, it completely lacks the compiler. PoCL work fine there, and much better on the Tesla than on the processor.