December 5, 2022: pocl v3.1 released
Release Highlights
- Support for Clang/LLVM 15.0
- Much improved SPIR-V support for CPU and CUDA drivers
- Major rework of the custom device driver. The driver was formerly named Accel, now AlmaIF.
- Various improvements to the work-in-progress Vulkan driver
- Basic implementation of cl_khr_command_buffer
You can download it from here.
Notes
- Please note that there's an official PoCL maintenance policy in place. This text describes the policy and how you can get your favourite project that uses OpenCL to remain regression free in the future PoCL releases.
- We are looking for ARM CPU and RISC-V CPU maintainers (and any other target of your interest). If you are interested in ensuring PoCL stays stable for these processor architectures in the future, please contact us.
- The dedicated TTASim driver will be deprecated once the AlmaIF driver reaches feature parity with it.
- Support for LLVM versions below 10 will be removed in the next release. If you rely on these versions, please let us know.
Acknowledgments
Customized Parallel Computing (CPC) research group of Tampere University, Finland leads the development of PoCL on the side and for the needs of their research projects. This project has received funding from European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 871738 (CPSoSaware), Academy of Finland (decision #331344) and Business Finland's AISA project. The financial support is very much appreciated -- it keeps this open source project going!