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…
Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.2 With SPIR-V 1.2
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…
Caffe and Torch7 ported to AMD GPUs, MXnet WIP
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…
Rebranding the company name from StreamComputing to StreamHPC
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…
What is Khronos as of today?
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…
AMD ROCm 1.5 Linux driver-stack is out
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…
DHPCC++ Program known
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:…
IWOCL 2017 – all the talks
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…