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According to an Intel employee I spoke to, OpenCL won't be available from day one on knights landing - all it will support will be OpenMP and MPI. Apparently th
by 14113 11y ago
According to an Intel employee I spoke to, OpenCL won't be available from day one on knights landing - all it will support will be OpenMP and MPI. Apparently they're the two main libraries which their target customer (HPC) require, so they're not putting any effort into OpenCL until they're sure it's wanted.
- rbanffy 11y agoIntel already supports OpenCL on previous versions of the Phi. I see no reason not to assume that code will run at higher performance on Knights Landing than it did on previous versions, even if the code generated does not squeeze out every tiny bit of performance of the x86 side of the cores.
- 14113 11y agoI'm not sure you understand - I mean they won't actually provide an OpenCL runtime/compiler. It's not that the code won't be slower/less performant, it's that it won't actually be possible to run it at all.