POCL as the "Portable Computing Language" that implements OpenCL and allows it to function atop CPUs as well as CUDA-enabled NVIDIA GPUs, HSA-supported AMD GPUs, and other possible back-ends, is preparing for a new feature release.

On Wednesday marked the release of POCL 1.6-RC1 as the test release for the next update to the Portable Computing Language.

POCL continues leveraging LLVM/Clang for doing much of the heavy lifting and supporting a diverse variety of back-ends for CPU execution and targeting other devices/accelerators. With POCL 1.6 there is support for building against the LLVM/Clang 11.0 code-base.

Also new to POCL 1.6 is improved CUDA performance and functionality when using that NVIDIA LLVM back-end for targeting. The other area focused on for POCL 1.6 development has improving the OpenCL debugging experience.

The release candidate of POCL 1.6 can be downloaded from GitHub . Those wanting to learn more about the Portable Computing Language can visit PortableCL.org .