Portable Computing Language | pocl powering Think Silicon's GPGPUs

"Think Silicon is an IP semiconductor company. Our products include ultra-low power GPUs. GPUs are typically programmed through the well-known graphics APIs, like Vulkan and OpenGL. As a company, we selected to enter into the GPGPU area and support the OpenCL API standard. We looked into various frameworks and opted to rely on POCL on top of LLVM v4.0. We are really impressed from the POCL implementation. POCL is a modular codebase with clear interfaces. POCL hides the complex interactions between the CPU and GPU when running OpenCL code and our work concentrates only on building a backend driver for Nema GPUs. Our OpenCL implementation is still on-going, but our preliminary indications show that the POCL run-time system will enable many optimizations with minimal development time. We kindly thank all POCL contributors, especially the lead developers from Tampere University for their excellent work."