PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs
PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 7 August 2026 at 09:39 AM EDT. Add A Comment The release candidate of PoCL 7.2 is now available for testing of this Portable Computing Language implementation of OpenCL that allows for CPU-based execution or via alternative LLVM back-ends allows for OpenCL on Level Zero, NVIDIA GPUs, and even remote devices/hardware. With PoCL 7.2-RC1 there is now official OpenCL 3.0 conformance achieved against the Khronos OpenCL Conformance Test Suite (CTS).
- ▪PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 7 August 2026 at 09:39 AM EDT.
- ▪Add A Comment The release candidate of PoCL 7.2 is now available for testing of this Portable Computing Language implementation of OpenCL that allows for CPU-based execution or via alternative LLVM back-ends allows for OpenCL on Level Zero,
- ▪With PoCL 7.2-RC1 there is now official OpenCL 3.0 conformance achieved against the Khronos OpenCL Conformance Test Suite (CTS).
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PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs Written by Michael Larabel in Programming on 7 August 2026 at 09:39 AM EDT. Add A Comment The release candidate of PoCL 7.2 is now available for testing of this Portable Computing Language implementation of OpenCL that allows for CPU-based execution or via alternative LLVM back-ends allows for OpenCL on Level Zero, NVIDIA GPUs, and even remote devices/hardware. With PoCL 7.2-RC1 there is now official OpenCL 3.0 conformance achieved against the Khronos OpenCL Conformance Test Suite (CTS). PoCL is now validated OpenCL 3.0 conformant for CPU devices with both RISC-V and x86_64 processors. The OpenCL conformant products list has PoCL with OpenCL 3.0 as tested for RISC-V on the Star64 RISC-V board and Milk-V Jupiter.
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