Running OpenCL On The CPU With POCL 1.0, Xeon & EPYC Testing

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Running OpenCL On The CPU With POCL 1.0, Xeon & EPYC Testing

This week marked the release of the long-awaited POCL 1.0 release candidate. For the uninformed POCL, or the Portable Computing Language, is a portable implementation of OpenCL 1.2~2.0 that can run on CPUs with its LLVM code generation and has also seen back-ends for its OpenCL implementation atop AMD HSA and even NVIDIA CUDA. I've been trying out POCL 1.0-RC1 on various Intel and AMD CPUs.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=25619

[Marc Driftmeyer]

I'm not seeing Blender, just a bunch of command line interfaced tests to show that POCL doesn't break and supports what it claims to support. When Blender, LuxRenderer, Maya, etc., recognize the stack w/o any fuss then that's progress.

[Michael]

I'm not seeing Blender, just a bunch of command line interfaced tests to show that POCL doesn't break and supports what it claims to support. When Blender, LuxRenderer, Maya, etc., recognize the stack w/o any fuss then that's progress.

Blender OpenCL results on the last page.

[edwaleni]

FWIW: SLAMBench is open source and also works on POCL, and is based on the Kfusion library with CUDA, OpenCL and OpenMP.

[schmidtbag]

Just for laughs, I'd like to see how they compare to something against Intel's graphics.

[DarkFoss]

It looks like it would have run fahbench.. wonder if it's could be used to run FAH since clover's useless for that.

[wizard69]

Nice work Micheal.

Im very pleased to see AMD hardware in a competitive state. Its been a long time, it might be worth testing something a little less than EPIC though.

[undersuit]

I would love to see the performance difference between running an OpenCL implementation of an algorithm compared to a CPU implementation. Too bad OpenCL 2 isn't supported just yet, you could compare Monero OpenCL mining performance with the POCL shim to the CPU performance.

[Spooktra]

How funny is it that a $100 GTX1050 is capable of smoking high end Intel and AMD based servers costing thousands of dollars.

[boxie]

Blender OpenCL results on the last page.

you mean at the bottom of the single page article :P (premium ftw)