[R-pkg-devel] R package development using GPU based on R package OpenCL

[Quirin Stier]

Dear members,

I have difficulties packing my OpenCL functions together as a complete R
package. I did not find any exemplary R package building upon the R
OpenCL Package. Currently I can only run the OpenCL functions as was
presented by the OpenCL examples of the OpenCL package itself. So,
assuming I have working OpenCL files, how can I create the MakeVars (or
whatever necessity needs to be done), in order to create a fully
functional R package?

Best regards,

Quirin

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[R-pkg-devel] Suppress R pop up message when using package OpenCL

[Quirin Stier]

Hi everyone,

when using package OpenCL and using function
OpenCL::oclSimpleKernel(...) to create a kernel function, a pop up
message is created. This cannot be suppressed with suppressMessages().
Any ideas how to get rid of the message popping up?

Best regards,

Quirin

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[R-pkg-devel] R OpenCL on an AMD GPU

[Quirin Stier]

Hi,

I am trying to set up the CRAN package "OpenCL" to run on a Windows 10
machine with an AMD GPU (Radeon 7900 XTX).

I installed the AMD drivers (which carry the OpenCL.dll) and the
installation of OpenCL in R didnt work. So I also downloaded the AMD SDK
to set up the environment variables OCL64LIB, OCL32LIB and OCLINC. The
installation worked, but the built package was broke (OpenCL kernels
didnt execute due to a multiplicity of errors - the OpenCL set up must
have been wrong).

The installation of OpenCL was done with install.packages("OpenCL",
INSTALL_opts = "--no-test-load") trying it with and without the
install_opts option.

Does anyone have a clue?

Best regards,

Quirin

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[R-pkg-devel] OpenCL R packages on CRAN

[quirin stier]

Hi,

I would like to ask what the current situation is regarding R packages
for computations on the GPU. There are no more official CRAN packages
using CUDA or OpenCL as foundation. There are only packages providing
either access to OpenCL, tensorflow or similar and packages using
directives in C++ via OpenMP.

My aim is to provide an R package using OpenCL. However, as far as I
know, such package would not run in Windows. Does CRAN accept packages
which are not compatible with every os?

Best regards

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