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Intel Releases New OpenCL Implementation for GNU/Linux

Posted by Unknown on from the do-your-own-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Intel has released its first version of Beignet, an open-source OpenCL run-time and LLVM back-end for Linux that uses LLVM/Clang and is compatible with Ivy Bridge processors. Right now there's partial support for OpenCL 1.0 and 1.1 along with other basic functionality." This is not using Gallium 3D, and at least David Arlie thinks it should not be an fd.o project because it duplicates functionality already present in Mesa.

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  1. Re:OpenCL is a heterogeneous processing language by Plombo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clover does not depend on X11 or OpenGL. It will be able to run without a graphics card if LLVMpipe has support for it; I don't remember if it does. So yes, it can do all of those things. On the other hand, Beignet currently requires an Ivy Bridge CPU and graphics hardware.