[llvm-dev] pocl 0.13 released

[C Bergström via llvm-dev]

Can you guys try to compile the SPEC ACCEL OpenCL benchmarks.

Here's some published numbers
http://spec.org/accel/results/accel_ocl.html



On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 1:10 AM, Pekka Jääskeläinen
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Pocl's goal is to become a performance portable open source (MIT-licensed)
> implementation of the OpenCL 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.
>
> Release highlights
> ------------------
>
> * Support for LLVM/Clang 3.8 and 3.7, all older are now unsupported
> * Started work on OpenCL 2.0 support
> * CMake build system almost on parity with autotools
> * Improved HSA support
> * Other optimizations and bug fixes
>
> We consider pocl ready for wider scale testing, although the OpenCL
> standard is not yet fully implemented, and it contains known bugs.
> The pocl test suite compiles and runs most of the ViennaCL 1.5.1
> examples, Rodinia 2.0.1 benchmarks, Parboil benchmarks, OpenCL
> Programming Guide book samples, VexCL test cases, Luxmark v2.0,
> most of the AMD APP SDK v2.9 OpenCL samples and piglit OpenCL tests
> among others.
>
> Acknowledgements
> ----------------
>
> We'd like to thank thank Finnish Funding Agency for Technology
> and Innovation (project "Parallel Acceleration 3", funding decision
> 1134/31/2015) and ARTEMIS JU under grant agreement no 621439
> (ALMARVI). Special thanks to HSA Foundation who sponsors the work on
> implementing the HSA support.
>
> Links
> -----
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> Change log:        http://portablecl.org/downloads/CHANGES
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>
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> Pekka
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