[pocl-devel] pocl 1.1 released

[Michal B. <Fra...@ru...>]

Hello everyone,

Portable Computing Language (pocl) v1.1 released
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Pocl is a portable open source (MIT-licensed) implementation of the
OpenCL standard (1.2 with some 2.0 features supported). In addition to
producing an easily portable open-source OpenCL implementation, another
major goal of this project is improving performance portability of
OpenCL programs with the kernel compiler and the task runtime, reducing
the need for target-dependent manual optimizations.

Release highlights
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* Support for LLVM/Clang 6.0 and 5.0.
* Experimental SPIR and SPIR-V support
* Improved kernel compilation speed

For full details, please read the Changelog or 1.1 release page on
GitHub (links at the bottom).

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:

  http://portablecl.org/docs/html/maintainer-policy.html

Acknowledgements
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Most of the code that landed to the pocl code base during this release
cycle was produced for the needs of research funded by various sources.
The Customized Parallel Computing research group of Tampere University
of Technology (Finland) likes to thank the Academy of Finland (funding
decision 297548), Business Finland (FiDiPro project StreamPro,
1846/31/2014) and HSA Foundation.

Links
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GitHub release:    https://github.com/pocl/pocl/releases/tag/v1.1
Home page:         http://portablecl.org/
This announcement: http://portablecl.org/downloads/ANNOUNCEMENT
Change log:        http://portablecl.org/downloads/CHANGES
Download:          http://portablecl.org/downloads.html

Regards,
 -- mb