Re: [boost] [compute] Review

Subject: Re: [boost] [compute] Review
From: Kyle Lutz (kyle.r.lutz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-12-31 12:37:54

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Gruenke,Matt <mgruenke_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> Bolt only works on AMD GPUs.
>
> I wasn't aware that it was AMD-specific (aside from the C++ AMP backend).  They claim support for "any available OpenCL(tm) capable accelerated compute unit".  I don't have a Nvidia card on which to test it.

Yeah, while Bolt has an OpenCL backend for GPU execution, it depends
on the "OpenCL Static C++ Kernel Language" extension which is only
implemented by AMD.

-kyle