OpenCL support


Not sure if you guys have seen this:

http://www.hotchips.org/archives/hc21/1_sun/HC21.23.2.OpenCLTutorial-Epub/HC21.23.270.Pulli-OpenCL-in-Handheld-Devices.pdf

This is a presentation that a Nokia engineer gave at the Hot Chips 21 symposium. It show a performance comparison of an image processing kernel running on the GPU (PowerVR SGX530), CPU (Arm Cortex A8), and a combination of both on an OMAP 3430.

It also mentions the potential of workload management on future chips:
"OpenCL can allocate workload on multiple processors...for example in OMAP 4430 there are 2 X Arm Cortex A9, ISP, GPU, DSP"

Now, whether or not OpenCL drivers will be available for ALL of the OMAP 4 computational resources is another question...but clearly Nokia got a driver for the CPU and GPU from SOMEONE to try this experiment. And this is from August 23rd, 2009.

ksudeadeye2010-12-03 21:58:32