Very nice :-)

Thank you all for the hard work.

Chuck

On 8/12/2013 8:09 AM, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> Portable Computing Language (pocl) v0.8 released
>
> Pocl's goal is to become an efficient open source (MIT-licensed) 
> implementation of the OpenCL 1.2 (and soon OpenCL 2.0) standard.
>
> 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 compiler optimizations, reducing the need 
> for target-dependent manual optimizations.
>
> At the core of pocl is the kernel compiler that consists of a set of LLVM 
> passes used to statically transform kernels into work-group functions with 
> multiple work-items, even in the presence of work-group barriers. These 
> functions are suitable for parallelization in multiple ways (SIMD, VLIW, 
> superscalar,...).
>
> This release adds support for LLVM/Clang 3.3, employs inner loop 
> parallelization in the kernel compiler, uses Vecmathlib for inlineable 
> efficient math library implementations, contains plenty of bug fixes, and 
> provides several new OpenCL API implementations.
>
> We consider pocl ready for wider scale testing, although the OpenCL 1.2 
> standard is not yet fully implemented, and it contains known bugs. The pocl 
> 0.8 test suite compiles and runs most of the ViennaCL 1.3.1 examples, Rodinia 
> 2.0.1 benchmarks, Parboil benchmarks, OpenCL Programming Guide book samples, 
> VexCL test cases, Luxmark v2.0, and most of the AMD APP SDK v2.8 OpenCL 
> samples, among others.
>
>
>
> Links
> -----
> Home page:         http://pocl.sourceforge.net/
> This announcement: http://pocl.sourceforge.net/pocl-0.8.html
> Change log:        http://pocl.sourceforge.net/downloads/CHANGES
> Download:          http://pocl.sourceforge.net/downloads
>
>
>
> The pocl developers
> August 2013
>


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