[Cython] OpenCL support

[Dimitri Tcaciuc]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:52 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:
> On 05.02.2012 23:39, Dimitri Tcaciuc wrote:
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>> 3. Does it make sense to make OpenCL more explicit?
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> No, it takes the usefuness of OpenCL away, which is that kernels are text
> strings and compiled at run-time.

I'm not sure I understand you, maybe you could elaborate on that? By
"explicit" I merely meant that the user will explicitly specify that
they're working on OpenCL-enabled array or certain bit of Cython code
will get compiled into OpenCL program etc.

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>> Heuristics and
>> automatic switching between, say, CPU and GPU is great for eg. Sage
>> users, but maybe not so much if you know exactly what you're doing
>> with your machine resources. E.g just having a library with thin
>> cython-adapted wrappers would be awesome. I imagine this can be
>> augmented by arrays having a knowledge of device-side/client-side
>> (which would go towards addressing the issue 1. above)
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> Just use PyOpenCL and manipulate kernels as text. Python is excellent for
> that - Cython is not needed. If you think using Cython instead of Python
> (PyOpenCL and NumPy) will be important, you don't have a CPU bound problem
> that warrants the use of OpenCL.

Again, not sure what you mean here. As I mentioned in the thread,
PyOpenCL worked quite fine, however if Cython is getting OpenCL
support, I'd much rather use that than keeping a dependency on another
library.

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