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OpenCL is dead

Open LourensVeen opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

OpenCL is dead and nVidia is slowly getting some competition in the compute space so that CUDA doesn't really suffice anymore either. There's a whole bunch of potential alternatives (SYCL, Vulkan, HIP, OneAPI, OpenAcc, Kokkos, and probably more I don't know about) but what to do? I think the CUDA and OpenCL chapter could use an update. Maybe something for the GPU SIG to pick up?

LourensVeen avatar Nov 02 '23 21:11 LourensVeen

According to the people at Khronos OpenCL is not dead, it is widely used (especially on mobile) and it is the target of e.g. various SyCL compilers :) I became the maintainer of that page yesterday, will allocate time before the end of the year for a thorough overhaul of our GPU guidelines.

isazi avatar Nov 03 '23 12:11 isazi

According to AMD it is though. At least they're not making a driver for the GPU in my laptop...

Anyway, you know much more about this than I do, so I'm looking forward to the new page. Thanks in advance!

LourensVeen avatar Nov 03 '23 12:11 LourensVeen