Pekka Jääskeläinen via llvm-dev
2021-Oct-12 15:39 UTC
[llvm-dev] Portable Computing Language (PoCL) v1.8 released
PoCL is a portable open source (MIT-licensed) implementation of the OpenCL standard (1.2 with some 2.0 and 3.0 features supported). In addition to being an easily portable multi-device (truly heterogeneous) open-source OpenCL implementation, a major goal of this project is improving interoperability for diversity of OpenCL-capable devices by integrating them to a single centrally orchestrated platform. Another key goal is to enhance performance portability of OpenCL programs across device types utilizing runtime and compiler techniques. Upstream PoCL currently supports various CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs via libcuda, HSA-supported GPUs and ASIPs (experimental, see: http://openasip.org). It is also known to have multiple (private) adaptations in active production use. Release Highlights ------------------ * Support for Clang/LLVM 13.0 * Improved debugging support with Valgrind, LTTNG * Improved support for NetBSD, Mac OS X * Improved support for SPIR/SPIR-V on CUDA Misc. Notes ----------- * 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 * We are still looking for an ARM and RISC-V CPU maintainers. If you are interested in ensuring a PoCL stays stable for these processor architectures, please let us know! Acknowledgements ---------------- Customized Parallel Computing (CPC) research group of Tampere University, Finland leads the development of PoCL on the side and for the needs of their research projects. This project has received funding from the ECSEL Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 783162 (FitOptiVis). The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and Netherlands, Czech Republic, Finland, Spain, Italy. It was also supported by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 871738 (CPSoSaware). The financial support is very much appreciated -- it keeps the open source project going! Links ----- Release web page: http://portablecl.org/pocl-1.8.html This announcement: http://portablecl.org/downloads/ANNOUNCEMENT Change log: http://portablecl.org/downloads/CHANGES Download: http://portablecl.org/download.html -- Pekka