Hacker News with Generative AI: OpenCL

Zig and GPUs (alichraghi.github.io)
GPU programming used to mean wrangling C++ compilers, bloated SDKs, and vendor-specific toolchains. That’s changing. You can now write GPU code in modern languages like Rust and Zig with fewer layers. This post walks through the current state of Zig’s GPU backends and how they stack up across Vulkan, OpenCL, and native ISAs.

GPU Programming, Programming Languages, Zig, Vulkan, OpenCL

57 points by Cloudef 8 days ago | 11 comments

Intel Arc B580 Delivers Promising Linux GPU Compute Potential for Battlemage (phoronix.com)
Now that the initial Intel Arc B580 graphics card gaming review on Linux is out, for productivity-minded users you may be more curious about the GPU compute potential... Here are some initial OpenCL and Level Zero results for the Intel Arc B580 graphics card compared to the Intel Arc A-Series and the AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce competition under Linux.

Graphics Cards, Linux, OpenCL, GPU Compute

36 points by zdw 135 days ago | 23 comments

Intel Compute Runtime 24.45 vs. ROCm 6.3 vs. Nvidia R565 Linux GPU Benchmarks (phoronix.com)
Complementing yesterday's fresh Linux gaming benchmarks of mid-range Intel Arc Graphics "Alchemist" vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7000 series cards ahead of the upcoming Battlemage availability, today's article is providing a fresh look at the latest Intel Compute Runtime performance for Level Zero / OpenCL on current-gen Intel discrete graphics compared to mid-range AMD Radeon GPUs on ROCm 6.3 and similar NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Ada graphics cards on the R565 driver.

Linux, Graphics Cards, Benchmarks, Performance, OpenCL

8 points by rbanffy 136 days ago | 0 comments

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 182 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 190 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 198 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.