Nim OpenCL utilities
This is an attempt at a high level wrapper over OpenCL.
For now, things are added when needed and as such, they may not be perfectly coherent. Still, they should be enough to cover the simplest cases and get started.
Some API changes can also be expected as the library becomes more comprehensive.
Vector add example
The "hello, world!" of OpenCL:
const
body = staticRead("vadd.cl")
size = 1_000_000
var
a = newSeq[float32](size)
b = newSeq[float32](size)
c = newSeq[float32](size)
for i in 0 .. a.high:
a[i] = i.float32
b[i] = (i * i).float32
let
(device, context, queue) = singleDeviceDefaults()
program = context.createAndBuild(body, device)
add = program.createKernel("add_vector")
gpuA = context.bufferLike(a)
gpuB = context.bufferLike(b)
gpuC = context.bufferLike(c)
add.args(gpuA, gpuB, gpuC, size.int32)
queue.write(a, gpuA)
queue.write(b, gpuB)
queue.run(add, size)
queue.read(c, gpuC)
echo c[1 .. 100]
# Clean up
release(queue)
release(add)
release(program)
release(gpuA)
release(gpuB)
release(gpuC)
release(context)The kernel is just
__kernel void add_vector(__global float* a, __global float* b, __global float* c, int num_els) {
int idx = get_global_id(0);
if (idx < num_els) {
c[idx] = a[idx] + b[idx];
}
}