OpenCL suite

[revisionfx]

Open Effects Proposal for Standard Change

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Standard Change Workflow

• [X ] Create proposal as issue (you're doing this now!)
• Tag this issue with standard change tag
• Identify subcommittee: at least one plug-in vendor, and at least one host
• Discuss the idea in this issue
• Write new or updated code and doc
• Publish updates as a pull request (ideally on a feature/PROPOSAL-NAME branch)
  • Make sure that PR references this issue number to keep them in sync
  • Discuss and review code in the PR
  • Meet all requirements below for accepting PR
• When subcommittee signs off and other members don't have any further review comments,
  maintainer merges PR to master which closes PR and issue

Requirements for accepting a standard change:

• Header files updated
• Documentation updated
• Release notes added
• Compatibility review completed
• Working code demonstrated with at least one host and one plugin
• At least two members sign off
• No further changes requested from membership

Summary

Can someone make a pull request against this for OpenCL suite proposal. It's fine to add WIP so we understand it's for reference review.

Motivation

We are waiting for a while for this to be able to abstract GPU API and be able to decide what we do with VK, Metal,.... It should be OCL 3.0 compliant too now :)

Problem

Certain hosts (like those who support multi-GPU on Windows GTX/RTX cards) cannot support the OpenGL suite, another API is necessary to allow that.

Impact

The preliminary suite has been reviewed by 3 members.

Documentation Impact

A new header file would be added.

Stakeholders

ALL

Discussion

[barretpj]

Surely OpenCL is pretty much dead and buried now?