[LLVMdev] ANN: libclc (OpenCL C library implementation)

[Hal Finkel]

Do we have a list of these open-source LLVM-based OpenCL projects
somewhere? Off the top of my head, we have:

libclc: http://www.pcc.me.uk/~peter/libclc/
pocl: https://launchpad.net/pocl
clover: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~steckdenis/clover/

(I think that all of these have BSD- or MIT-style licenses).

Are there any others?

 -Hal

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 14:47 +0100, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is to announce the availability of libclc, an open source, BSD
> licensed implementation of the library requirements of the OpenCL C
> programming language, as specified by the OpenCL 1.1 Specification.
> libclc is intended to be used with Clang's OpenCL frontend.
> 
> libclc website: http://www.pcc.me.uk/~peter/libclc/
> 
> libclc is designed to be portable and extensible. To this end,
> it provides generic implementations of most library requirements,
> allowing the target to override the generic implementation at the
> granularity of individual functions.
> 
> libclc currently only supports the PTX target, but support for more
> targets is welcome.
> 
> How does this project relate to the recently announced Portable OpenCL
> (POCL) project?  Unlike POCL, this project is not intended to provide
> an OpenCL host library (i.e. the OpenCL Platform Layer and OpenCL
> Runtime specified in sections 4-5 of the OpenCL specification).
> Instead, it provides only the requirements for the OpenCL C
> Programming Language (section 6 et seq).  It is intended to be used
> with an existing host library implementation, and comply with its
> ABI requirements.
> 
> An example of such a host library is NVIDIA's OpenCL host library
> for PTX -- the intention is to at some point provide a mechanism
> for using the NVIDIA implementation of OpenCL with Clang, libclc
> and LLVM's PTX backend instead of NVIDIA's own OpenCL compiler.
> Another example would be POCL's host library, and the POCL developers
> have expressed an interest in using libclc as their OpenCL C library
> instead of developing their own.
> 
> I will hope to find time over the next few weeks to add libclc support
> to the Clang driver.  The intention is that compiling OpenCL C programs
> to PTX would be as easy as (something like this):
> 
> clang -target ptx32 -S file.cl
> 
> such that the driver would automatically locate the libclc headers,
> add them to the include path and pre-include the main header file.
> (The libclc support will of course be optional, and a -cl-stdlib=
> flag will be provided to allow for switching between OpenCL standard
> library implementations.)
> 
> Thanks,

-- 
Hal Finkel
Postdoctoral Appointee
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory