Most of our projects are around performance optimisation, but we’re cleaning up bugs too. This is because you can only speed up software when certain types of bugs are cleared out. A few months ago, we got a different type of request. If we could solve bugs in MESA 3D that appear in games. Yes,
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In the perfect world all software is fast, giving us time to do actual work. Unfortunately we live in an unperfect world, and we have to spend extra time controlling our anger as the software keeps us waiting. Therefore we have opened the Slow Software Hotline – reachable via both phone and email. It has
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AMD open sourced the OpenCL driver stack for ROCm in the beginning of May. With this they kept their promise to open source (almost) everything. The hcc compiler was open sourced earlier, just like the kernel-driver and several other parts. Why this is a big thing? There are indeed several open source OpenCL implementations, but
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Today Khronos has released OpenCL 2.2 with SPIR-V 1.2. The most important changes are: A static subset of the C++14 standard as a kernel language. The OpenCL C++ kernel language includes classes, templates, lambda expressions, function overloads and many other constructs to increase parallel programming productivity through generic and meta-programming. Access to the C++ language
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Last week AMD released ports of Caffe, Torch and (work-in-progress) MXnet, so these frameworks now work on AMD GPUs. With the Radeon MI6, MI8 MI25 (25 TFLOPS half precision) to be released soonish, it’s ofcourse simply needed to have software run on these high end GPUs. The ports have been announced in December. You see
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Since 2010 the name StreamComputing has been used and is widely known now in the GPU-computing industry. But the name has three problems: we don’t have the .com domain, it does not directly show what we do, and the name is quite long. Some background on the old domain name While the initial focus was
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The Khronos Group is the organization behind APIs like OpenGL, Vulkan and OpenCL. Over one hundred companies are a member and decide together what your next year phone, camera, computer or media device will be capable of. We work most with OpenCL, but you probably noticed we work with OpenGL, Vulkan and SPIR too. Currently
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ROCm is AMD’s open source Linux-driver that brings compute to HSA-hardware. It does not provide graphics and therefore focuses on monitor-less applications like machine learning, math, media processing, machine vision, large scale simulations and more. For those who do not know HSA, the Heterogeneous Software Architecture defines hardware and software such that different processor types
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During IWOCL a workshop takes place that discusses the opportunities that C++ brings to OpenCL-enabled processors. A well-know example is SYCL, but various other approaches are talked about. The Distributed & Heterogeneous Programming in C/C++ Workshop just released their program: HiHAT: A New Way Forward for Hierarchical Heterogeneous Asynchronous Tasking. SYCL C++17 and OpenCL interoperability
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An overview of all the tutorials and talks for easy reading. You can also download the PDF. Heterogeneous Computing Using Modern C++ with OpenCL Devices – Rod Burns and Ruyman Reyes (Codeplay) This hands-on session will provide an opportunity to get experience with SYCL using ComputeCpp™ Community Edition, a free to use implementation of the
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