My only hesitation with backports is the warning on the home page which states: "Backports cannot be tested as extensively as Debian stable, and backports are provided on an as-is basis, with risk of incompatibilities with other components in Debian stable. Use with care!"
So, I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a couple virtual machines to do Linux OpenCL and CUDA development. IMO, it makes no sense for Debian 7 to become unstable by using semi-tested backports. That brings up another question though... What's with the "opencl_cpu_intel" plan class name? Is Dr. Rodney McKay on the Berkeley payroll again? ;-) If the current plan class is "opencl_intel_gpu" shouldn't the CPU version be named "opencl_intel_cpu" ? Or better yet, to be consistent with the other coproc names, shouldn't they be "opencl_intel_cpu_102" and "opencl_intel_gpu_102" since Intel's current version (Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications XE 2013 R3) uses OpenCL 1.2 drivers? Is OpenCL CPU support limited to Intel? I ask because Intel's only current version for Linux is aimed at Xeons and won't even run on Core 2s, I7s, etc. whereas the AMD version works on AMD CPUs as well as non-Xeon and older SSE2 CPUs. AMD's version also runs within a virtual machine when using the CPU, at least with Win 8.1 host and an Ubuntu virtual machine. If AMD support won't be added for a while, I'll go ahead and make my CPU apps work with both AMD and Intel and try using AMD first if the processor is not a Xeon. Finally, even though clinfo runs successfully on Linux when using the Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications XE 2013 R3 runtime/SDK, clinfo doesn't actually create a context and when that is attempted, one gets a device not available error unless using a supported CPU. So, clinfo may work but hello world will not. You can compile with the Intel lib and run using the AMD platform though. Jon Sonntag _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
