OpenCL on a cpu

OpenCL
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I have a fairly simple sample which works perfect on my NVIDIA 8800 GT, however I am kind of wondering why the following piece of code only allows me pick one platform (the NV8800 GT)


cl_int status = CL_SUCCESS;
cl_uint numPlatforms;
status |= clGetPlatformIDs (0, NULL, &numPlatforms);

I have an Intel QuadCore2 (Q6600); Isnt there some way where I can get my code to run on the CPU ?

2

What is your operating system?

3

Windows Vista

4

The only CPU driver for OpenCL that I’m aware of on windows/linux is AMD’s. Nvidia does not support CPU devices. If you want Nvidia+CPU you have to use Mac OS X or figure out how to get the platform layer working. (I’m not sure if it’s working yet, so I can’t advise you there.)

5

For the moment, nVidia and AMD implementation don’t “speak” together …

6

I do my first steps with OpenCL i translated the include files to FreeBASIC.
Now i can run OpenCL code on a installed NVIDIA GPU (GT240)
or i select the AMD platform and select the CPU emulation on the fly.

First i installed my NVIDIA driver with CUDA and OpenCL support
than i installed the AMD OpenCL runtime.

This should work for you too.

happy number crunching

Joshy

7

(why i can’t modify my own last posting here ?)

here are how i select NVIDIA or AMD with CPU emulation


...
if (numPlatforms > 0) then
    dim as cl_platform_id_t ptr platforms = callocate(numPlatforms*sizeof(cl_platform_id_t))
    status = clGetPlatformIDs(numPlatforms, platforms, NULL)
    if (status<>CL_SUCCESS) then
      print "Error: Getting Platform Ids. (clGetPlatformsIDs)"
      return
    end if
    dim as zstring ptr pbuff = callocate(255)
    for i as uinteger = 0  to numPlatforms-1
      status = clGetPlatformInfo(platforms[i], _
                                 CL_PLATFORM_VENDOR, _
                                 255, _
                                 pbuff, _
                                 NULL)
      if (status<>CL_SUCCESS) then
        print "Error: Getting Platform Info. (clGetPlatformInfo)"
        return
      end if
      print "platform[" & i & "] = " & *pbuff

      platform = platforms[i]
#ifdef USE_ATI
      if instr(*pbuff, "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.") then
#else
      if instr(*pbuff, "NVIDIA") then
#endif
        exit for
      end if 
    next
    deallocate platforms
  end if ' if (numPlatforms > 0) then

  ' If we could find our platform, use it. 
  ' Otherwise pass a NULL and get whatever 
  ' the implementation thinks we should be using.
  dim as cl_context_properties_t cps(2)
  cps(0) = CL_CONTEXT_PLATFORM
  cps(1) = cast(cl_context_properties_t,platform)
  cps(2) = 0

  dim as cl_context_properties_t ptr cprops
  if (NULL=platform) then
    cprops = NULL
  else
    cprops = @cps(0)
  end if
#ifdef USE_ATI
  ' Create an OpenCL context with CPU emulation
  g_context = clCreateContextFromType(cprops, _
                                      CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU, _
                                      NULL, _
                                      NULL, _
                                      @status)
#else
  ' Create an OpenCL context with real GPU
  g_context = clCreateContextFromType(cprops, _
                                      CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU, _
                                      NULL, _
                                      NULL, _
                                      @status)
#endif
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