[HN Gopher] Vortex: OpenCL Compatible RISC-V GPGPU
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       Vortex: OpenCL Compatible RISC-V GPGPU
        
       Author : pjmlp
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2020-03-05 12:15 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | muizelaar wrote:
       | The code is maybe at: https://github.com/felsabbagh3/Vortex
        
       | algorithm314 wrote:
       | An other RISCV GPU from Think Silicon https://think-
       | silicon.com/2019/12/02/think-silicon-demonstra...
        
       | lwb wrote:
       | Anyone here use OpenCL for their day job? Practically speaking,
       | what are the use cases for it in a corporate environment?
        
         | sjmulder wrote:
         | I've been exploring it for use for financial calculations that
         | are 'embarrassingly parallel'. It's much faster alright but
         | people here aren't trained in data oriented programming. Might
         | end up writing some generic accelerated building blocks for use
         | from VBA.
        
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