epiphany-opencl's Introduction

% Release Notes for the COPRTHR SDK version 1.5.0 (Marathon) % Copyright (c) 2013 Brown Deer Technology, LLC % Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire document is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.

The CO-PRocessing THReads (COPRTHR) SDK provides libraries and tools for application developers targeting multi-core and many-core parallel co-processing computer platforms.

New In Version 1.5 (Marathon) release

OpenCL Remote Procedure Call (RPC) implementation (CLRPC)
- Stand-alone CLRPC server (clrpcd) for exporting OpenCL platforms over a network connection
- Client-side OpenCL RPC implementation (libclrpc)
New OpenCL loader (libocl) with advanced functionlity
- Backward-compatible with Khronos ICD loader
- Supports precise platform configuration with ocl.conf files
- Integrated CLRPC support for access to remote CLRPC servers
- Suppors process accounting and extensible host call hooks
New error reporting and debugging infrastructure
- OpenCL and STDCL error reporting via oclerrno and clerrno
- Run-time selection of reporting level from all tools and libraries
New processor support for Adapteva Epiphany/Parallella
- Full SDK support for the Adapteva Epiphany processor and Parallella platform
- Includes OpenCL and STDCL support for Parallella Epiphany and ARM processors
- Includes extensions for the Epiphany architecture
STDCL CONTEXT stdnpu for networked compute devices (preview feature)
- Provides a single default compute context for accessing all networked devices available via CLRPC
New tools and commands
- cltop for monitoring co-processing similar to UNIX top command
- cldebug front-end for application debugging