Hacker News with Generative AI: OpenCL

Tell HN: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number (ycombinator.com)
Hi, I'm Mihai Preda the author of GpuOwl/PRPLL [1], an OpenCL software used by Luke Durant for his recent discovery of the largest prime number know, the 52nd Mersenne prime 2^136279841 - 1 [2].

Mathematics, Prime Numbers, Software, OpenCL

72 points by mpreda 26 days ago | 43 comments

AMD ROCm Looks Like It Will Be Supporting OpenCL 3.0 Soon (phoronix.com)
The OpenCL 3.0 compute specification has been out in finalized form since September 2020. Since then NVIDIA's official Windows/Linux drivers have been exposing OpenCL 3.0 going back to 2021, the Intel Compute Runtime stack has also been exposing OpenCL 3.0 support for years, and even with Mesa's Rusticl open-source OpenCL implementation it's beginning to see Gallium3D drivers with conformant OpenCL 3.0. Yet if installing the AMD ROCm compute stack right now, you'll see OpenCL 2.1.

AMD, OpenCL, Open Source, Graphics Cards, Compute

21 points by rbanffy 34 days ago | 4 comments

AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux (rosenzweig.io)
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0.

Gaming, Linux, M1, Vulkan, OpenCL

944 points by 6a74 42 days ago | 365 comments

AAA Gaming on Asahi Linux (asahilinux.org)
Gaming on Linux on M1 is here! We’re thrilled to release our Asahi game playing toolkit, which integrates our Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility. Plus a bonus: conformant OpenCL 3.0.