Opened 6 years ago
Last modified 6 years ago
#1203 new task
OpenCL deprecated on Mac
| Reported by: | pkienzle | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | SasView 5.1.0 |
| Component: | sasmodels | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Work Package: | SasModels Infrastructure |
Description
sasmodels on future macs
Apple has announced that OpenCL is deprecated as of Mojave https://developer.apple.com/macos/whats-new/, however, there does seem to be an alternate path.
There is an OpenCL frontend in clang, triggered by "-x cl", as shown on this blog entry, and which seems to work on my Mac. Khronos provides the LLVM to SPIR-V translator and the MoltenVK driver which takes SPIR-V and sends it to Apple's Metal framework.
So perhaps the problem will resolve itself, and a third party will put together the necessary toolchain in a nice anaconda package that we can supply with the mac distribution of sasview. Otherwise we will need to put together the pieces ourselves, or update kernel_iq.c to support Metal in addition to OpenCL and CUDA, and write a replacement for pyopencl/pycuda that targets Metal.
There is no answer yet on stackoverflow.
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by butler
- Work Package changed from SasModels Redesign to SasModels Infrastructure
