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[boost] [compute] Review period extended till December 30 + sum up
by Antony Polukhin 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hi, Review period of Compute library extended till December 30. Some notes and answers to them that were pointed out during review so far: * Some of the algorithms could be tuned for a specific hardware - Library author is working on a auto-tuning solution and improves existing algos * Why OpenCL C API used instead of C++ API? - C++ API had issues, C API allows a bit more control. No C++ API for OpenCL 2.0 * API is not N4105 compatible, library is not N*** compatible - This could be easily fixed by a library that will use Compute as a backend * Some of the algorithms return futures while other work with command queues - This is because of the OpenCL design + async chains/futures would be probably added later * Not all the types of the Khronos API are supported - A few types are not documented yet, there's a patch in the works which would allow the Khronos C++ types to be passed into Compute algorithms * A few type related errors could be detected at compile time - This will be fixed, more asserts would be added to runtime only checkable places. Report issues to the tracker https://github.com/kylelutz/compute/issues * On small data sets CPU algorithm would work faster than a GPGPU. How about implicitly dispatching algo on CPU in those cases? - The call on whether to execute the algorithm should be left up to the user. While library author agrees that this would be a useful feature, he just don't think Compute is the right place for that logic. * How about providing way to do chains of async operations - This is a big task that will be solved some day. * How about providing Boost.ASIO like error handling via throw and error_code - Implementing an approach like ASIO's wouldn't be that difficult. Thanks to all the reviewers for spending their time and providing useful comments so far! -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin

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[boost] [compute] Review period starts today December 15, 2014, ends on December 24, 2014
by Antony Polukhin 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

Dear All, Review of the Compute library starts today on Mon 25st of December 2014 and will last for ten days. The Compute library provides a C++ interface to multi-core GPGPU and CPU computing platforms based on OpenCL. The project is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/kylelutz/compute. Docs are available at http://kylelutz.github.io/compute/ Sources could be downloaded as a ZIP archive via https://github.com/kylelutz/compute/archive/master.zip Some pre-official reviews could be found in Boost Library Incubator: http://rrsd.com/blincubator.com/reviews/?library_id=669 Please, answer the following questions in your review: 1. What is your evaluation of the design? 2. What is your evaluation of the implementation? 3. What is your evaluation of the documentation? 4. What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? 5. Did you try to use the library? With what compiler? Did you have any problems? 6. How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick reading? In-depth study? 7. Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain? And finally, every review should answer this question: 8. Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library? Be sure to say this explicitly so that your other comments don't obscure your overall opinion. -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin

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