Installing OpenCL on Mac¶ While the OpenCL framework is available by default on most modern Macs, the C header “cl.hpp” or “cl2.hpp” is usually not. One option for building for OpenCL is to download this header file and include it in include/OpenCL (as “cl.hpp”). The OpenCL C header can be found at the Khronos OpenCL registry. Apple's MacBook Air may see an additional performance boost next year with Intel's next-generation Ivy Bridge processors, which, according to a new report, will add support for the OpenCL. The Intel FPGA SDK for OpenCL Software Pro Edition, Version 20.2 includes functional and security updates. Users should keep their software up-to-date and follow the technical recommendations to help improve security. Additional security updates are planned and will be provided as they become available. If you want to develop software on a MAC, you will find examples here and will find XCode completely ready. The only down-side is that the drivers cannot be manually updated – you need to update OSX for that. You can choose to use Intel’s drivers, or AMD’s drivers. Intel OpenCL drivers. Intel’s drivers require support for.

Important:OpenCL was deprecated in macOS 10.14. To create high-performance code on GPUs, use the Metal framework instead. See Metal.

Important OpenCL was deprecated in macOS 10.14. To create high-performance code on GPUs, use the Metal framework instead. See Metal.

OpenCL™ (Open Computing Language) is an open standard for cross-platform, programming of modern highly-parallel processor architectures. Introduced with OS X v10.6, OpenCL consists of a C99-based programming language designed for parallelism, a powerful scheduling API, and a flexible runtime that executes kernels on the CPU or GPU. OpenCL lets your application harness the computing power of these processors to improve performance and deliver new features based on compute-intensive algorithms.

In addition to support for the OpenCL 1.1 standard, OS X v10.7 adds integration between OpenCL, Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), and Xcode to make it even easier to use OpenCL in your application.

At a Glance

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Using OpenCL is easier than ever as of OS X v10.7:

• OpenCL is fully supported by Xcode. The Xcode offline compiler removes a configuration step that used to have to be performed before the kernel could be run and facilitates debugging earlier in the development process. See Hello World!.

• You can write OpenCL functions in separate files and include them in your Xcode project. You can compile the kernels when your application is built, before it runs. This improves runtime performance.

• OpenCL now integrates with GCD, making it easier for you to focus on making your OpenCL kernels more efficient. See Using Grand Central Dispatch With OpenCL.

• The autovectorizer compiles and accelerates performance of kernels that run on the CPU up to four times without additional effort. The autovectorizer allows you to write one kernel that runs efficiently on both a CPU and a GPU. You can invoke the autovectorizer regardless of whether you are compiling from Xcode or building the kernels at runtime. Or you can disable the autovectorizer if necessary. See Autovectorizer.

You can, of course, continue to use code you’ve already written to the OpenCL 1.1 standard. But see Binary Compatibility Of OpenCL Kernels for a note about how to handle existing binaries.

Because OpenCL C is based on C99, you are free to process your data in OpenCL C functions as you would in C with few limitations. Aside from support for recursion and function pointers, there are not many language features that C has that OpenCL C doesn’t have. In fact, OpenCL C provides several beneficial features that the C programming language does not offer natively, such as optimized image access functions. OpenCL C has built-in support for vector intrinsics and offers vector data types. The operators in OpenCL C are overloaded, and performing arithmetic between vector data types is syntactically equivalent to performing arithmetic between scalar values. Refer to the The OpenCL Specification for more details on the built-in functions and facilities of the OpenCL C language.

Prerequisites

This guide assumes that you program in C and have access to The OpenCL Specification. Although this guide discusses many key OpenCL API functions, it does not provide detailed information on the OpenCL API or the OpenCL C programming language.

See Also

The OpenCL Specification, available from the Khronos Group at http://www.khronos.org/registry/cl/ provides information on the OpenCL standard.

The OpenCL Programming Guide by Aaftab Munshi, Benedict Gaster, Timothy G. Mattson, James Fung, and Dan Ginsburg, available from Pearson Education, Inc., is a helpful introduction to the OpenCL language and standard; these topics are not discussed in this book.

For more information about Grand Central Dispatch queues, see Concurrency Programming Guide: Dispatch Queues.

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There are multiple ways to install the Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications:

Windows

Local Install

The easiest (and least obtrusive!) way to install the Intercept Layer forOpenCL Applications is to:

1. Put the Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications OpenCL.dll into yourapplication's working directory, typically the directory with theapplication executable. Since DLLs are often loaded from the currentworking directory before other directories in the system path, theIntercept Layer for OpenCL Applications OpenCL.dll will be loadedinstead of the real OpenCL.dll.
2. To uninstall, simply delete the Intercept Layer for OpenCL ApplicationsOpenCL.dll from the application's working directory.

Global Install

To install the Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications globally (for allOpenCL applications):

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1. Rename your existing OpenCL.dll (typically in c:windowssystem32 for32-bit systems or 64-bit DLLs on 64-bit systems, or c:windowssyswow64for 32-bit DLLs on 64-bit systems).
   • You may need to rename your existing OpenCL.dll from safe mode, orfrom a command prompt with administrative privileges.
   • If you rename your existing DLL to real_OpenCL.dll then the renamedDLL will be automatically loaded by the Intercept Layer for OpenCLApplications, otherwise you'll need to tell the Intercept Layer forOpenCL Applications what your real DLL name is. See below.
2. After renaming your real OpenCL.dll, copy the Intercept Layer forOpenCL Applications version of OpenCL.dll in its place.
3. To uninstall the Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications using thismethod, reverse the steps: First, delete the Intercept Layer for OpenCLApplications version of OpenCL.dll, then rename the real OpenCL.dllback to OpenCL.dll.

This method also works for applications that load OpenCL.dll from an explicit path.

Linux

Global Install

Note: If the real ICD loader library is in a system directory, you may need to perform some of these steps with elevated privledges - be careful!

1. Find the location of the ICD loader library or OpenCL implementation your application is using:

   This will list where your application is searching for the ICD loader, similar to:

   The rest of this document assumes that the real ICD loader library is libOpenCL.so.1, as shown above.If your ICD loader is named something different, please use its name instead.

2. Rename (or copy) the real ICD loader library to a different name, such as real_libOpenCL.so:

3. Copy or symbolically link the Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications library in place of the real ICD loader:

4. Create a config file or setup environment variables to tell the Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications where to find the real ICD loader.For example, you could create a clintercept.conf file with content:

   Or, you could set an environment variable:

   See the controls documentation for more detail.

5. Run your OpenCL application.You should observe that the Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications is active.

6. To uninstall, rename or copy the real ICD loader library back to its original location:

7. Run your OpenCL application.You should observe that the Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications is no longer active.

Targeted Usage

To intercept many Linux OpenCL applications, instrumentation can be performedusing only environment variables. If the application specifies an rpath orotherwise circumvents the OS's method of identifying an appropriatelibOpenCL.so, this method won't work. Example:

Mac OSX

The Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications on OSX uses an OS capability called'interposition' to intercept OpenCL calls. As such, there is no 'globalinstall' for OSX. To use the Intercept Layer for OpenCL Applications on OSX,run your application with the environment variable DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES setto the full path to the CLIntercept library. For example:

Android - Experimental

Only global install was tested

1. on target:

2. on host:

3. configuration file will be in $HOME/clintercept.conf. If $HOME variable isundefined (GUI application) it is in /sdcard/clintercept.conf.

   Sample config:

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