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the future ?

Open woncount opened this issue 12 years ago • 2 comments

Quoting: "In an ideal world, the Clyther developers would move the core such that it was built on top of PyOpenCL, so we wouldn't have to choose, and to avoid duplication of labor. I doubt that will ever happen, though." http://stackoverflow.com/a/4869923

Clyther looks like the most straightforward Python/OpenCL option, despite not being very complete, it is already very powerful and useful. However, it hasn't been updated in quite a while apparently. Given the ideas and features discussed on the website, I was wondering if it might be a feasible option to implement Clyther either on top of PyOpenCL or possibly llvm/llvmpy, llvm is already being used by AMD/NVIDIA to compile OpenCL and the tool chain is fully exposed, so that Python bytecode could be transparently processed and turned into corresponding CL kernels.

woncount avatar Jun 23 '13 06:06 woncount

When I created CLyther, PyOpenCL was in it's infancy so I created my own OpenCL Python bindings https://github.com/srossross/oclpb which are separate from the CLyther Language translator. It should be feasible to remove the dependency on oclpb and replace it with PyOpenCL

srossross avatar Jun 23 '13 17:06 srossross

Hello, what is the status of this project?

Andrea

andreacortis avatar Nov 23 '13 21:11 andreacortis