October 26th, 2015: pocl v0.12 released
This release adds:
- support for HSA-compliant devices (tested with AMD Kaveri's GPU) ( for installation steps & current status, please see the HSA section in Pocl documentation)
- Little endian MIPS32 now passes almost all tests
- kernel compiler support for LLVM/Clang 3.7
- improved caching of compiled OpenCL kernels
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.
Note: 0.12 is the last version that builds with older LLVM versions. We plan to prune code needed to support for the old versions in the next release and focus on the current stable LLVM version and possibly the previous one for easier transition.
Acknowledgements
We'd like to thank Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (project "Parallel Acceleration 2", funding decision 40115/13), Academy of Finland (funding decision 253087) and ARTEMIS joint undertaking under grant agreement no 621439 (ALMARVI) for funding the development of this release.
A pocl developer E. Schnetter acknowledges support from the Perimeter Institute, as well as funding from NSERC (Canada) via a Discovery Grant and from NSF (USA) via OCI Award 0905046.