POCL 1.0 RC1 Adds Experimental CUDA Backend, Full OpenCL 1.2 Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: POCL 1.0 RC1 Adds Experimental CUDA Backend, Full OpenCL 1.2 Support

One of the most exciting open-source OpenCL projects we have been following in recent years is POCL as "Portable C" for having an LLVM-based portable OpenCL implementation to run on CPUs as well as GPUs now via AMD HSA back-end and a new experimental NVIDIA CUDA back-end. The POCL 1.0 release is finally near...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Portable-CL-POCL-1.0-RC1

[edwaleni]

I use POCL 0.11-pre on Android. Samsung pre-installs OpenCL libs on their phones/tablets, but when I switched to LG, they don't. So I use POCL.

Why? I test certain capabilities with SLAMBench ( http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/proje...ols/SLAMBench/ ) to test OpenCL, Open MP, etc.

[Tomin]

PCOL 1.0 contains some significant changes and improvements.

and again

POCL 1.0 also has LLVM 5.0 back-end support, improved scalability in the CPU driver, full conformance for the OpenCL 1.2 standard by default, an updated format of PCOL binaries, improved AVX-512 support, and much more.

[andrei_me]

I was going to comment on the typos, tildearrow was probably unavailable when this news were posted