chipStar release 1.1
This release cycle focused on stabilization and performance improvements
over the 1.0 release. The release was measured to run some benchmarks up
to twice as fast as 1.0, with an average improvement of 30% measured on HeCBench.
Further highlights are described in the following.
Release Highlights
- Added support for Clang/LLVM 17. LLVM 15 and 16 are still supported.
- Ability to Use the Intel Unified Shared Memory Extension, with OpenCL backend
- Optimized Atomic Operations
- Use of Immediate Command Lists for Low Latency Dispatch, with Level Zero backend
- Improved portability to other platforms & devices
- Improved Asynchronous Execution
The full release notes are available in docs/release_notes/chipStar_1.1.rst
The full sources of the release (including git submodules) are available packaged in the attached file chipStar-1.1.tar.gz
(SHA256: 9258a313c503073a082ca310cebf048d84c4ab698facfc8d1d9ce1381ffb9fc5).