Pekka Jääskeläinen via llvm-dev
2018-Sep-25 08:18 UTC
[llvm-dev] Portable Computing Language (pocl) v1.2 released
Pocl is a portable open source (MIT-licensed) implementation of the OpenCL standard (1.2 with some 2.0 features supported). In addition to producing an easily portable open-source OpenCL implementation, another major goal of this project is improving performance portability of OpenCL programs with the kernel compiler and the task runtime, reducing the need for target-dependent manual optimizations. Feature Highlights ------------------ * Support for LLVM/Clang 7.0 and 6.0. * HWLOC 2.0 support Notes ----- * pocl 1.2 build on 64bit ARM with LLVM 7.0 is broken (it works with previous LLVM versions). This is a regression in LLVM. * Vecmathlib support is deprecated and will likely be removed in the next release, unless some users come forward. Please note that there's an official pocl "maintenance policy" in place. This text describes the policy and how you can get your favourite project that uses OpenCL to remain regression free in the future pocl releases: http://portablecl.org/docs/html/maintainer-policy.html Acknowledgements ---------------- Most of the code that landed to the pocl code base during this release cycle was produced for the needs of research funded by various sources. The Customized Parallel Computing research group of Tampere University of Technology (Finland) likes to thank the Academy of Finland (funding decision 297548), Business Finland (FiDiPro project StreamPro, 1846/31/2014), ECSEL JU project FitOptiVis (project number 783162) and HSA Foundation for funding most of the development work in this release. Much appreciated! Links ----- Home page: http://portablecl.org/ This announcement: http://portablecl.org/downloads/ANNOUNCEMENT Change log: http://portablecl.org/downloads/CHANGES Download: http://portablecl.org/download.html -- Pekka