v0.9.42

KernelAbstractions v0.9.42

Diff since v0.9.41

Merged pull requests:

• Remove per-launch heap allocation in CPU __run (#716) (@simone-silvestri)
• Update Buildkite pipeline for the new JuliaGPU cluster (release-0.9) (#717) (@vchuravy)

Closed issues:

• [nanoOpenCL] illegal addrspace cast in Julia 1.12 (#624)
• [pocl] Device side RNG (#641)
• CBS vs LoopVec for POCL support (#695)

v0.9.41

KernelAbstractions v0.9.41

Diff since v0.9.40

Merged pull requests:

• Avoid relying on a RNG in the back-end. (#686) (@maleadt)

v0.9.40

KernelAbstractions v0.9.40

Diff since v0.9.39

Merged pull requests:

• KernelIntrinsics API (#635) (@christiangnrd)
• Fix trivial typo in quickstart.md (#645) (@PatrickHaecker)
• Update matmul.jl (#646) (@thimotedupuch)
• Update quickstart.md to include MetalBackend (docs) (#648) (@vcantarella)
• [CI] Test backend branches (#656) (@christiangnrd)
• Fix AMDGPU CI (#657) (@christiangnrd)
• KI docstring typos (#660) (@christiangnrd)
• Update CI workflow to use Windows 2022 (#663) (@christiangnrd)
• Update CI deps (#664) (@christiangnrd)
• KernelIntrisics and related tweaks (#666) (@christiangnrd)
• Bump actions dependencies (#669) (@dependabot[bot])
• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 5 to 6 (#670) (@dependabot[bot])
• Add test for kernels with multiple shared buffers (#672) (@christiangnrd)
• [release-0.9] Prefix possibly unused generated variable with _ (#673) (@giordano)
• Temporarily work around 1.12 failures (#674) (@christiangnrd)
• fixed CITATION.cff to show DOI (#676) (@cwittens)
• [release-0.9] Add test for kernels with multiple shared buffers (#672) (#678) (@christiangnrd)
• [release-1.9] Support Julia 1.13 (#680) (@eschnett)

Closed issues:

• Lower-level kernel form? (#578)

v0.9.39

KernelAbstractions v0.9.39

Diff since v0.9.38

Changes

• On 1.11+ aliascope has the potential to cause a miss-compilation even when the user is not using @Const.

Merged pull requests:

• Unified memory allocations (#630) (@christiangnrd)
• SPIRVIntrinsics 0.5 support (#638) (@christiangnrd)
• CI: Build PoCL without hwloc (#639) (@christiangnrd)
• Use macos-15-intel (#640) (@christiangnrd)
• Aliasscope miss-compile for 1.11+ (#653) (@vchuravy)
• Add test for accumulate issue (#654) (@vchuravy)

Closed issues:

• Unified memory interface? (#601)
• Loading KA 0.10 and oneAPI/OpenCL will lead to "MethodOverwritten" errors due to MethodTable collisions (#610)
• ones function is not type-stable for CUDA (#634)
• error with @synchronize() and loads/stores with static number of items (#642)
• Using @fastmath for a function inlined in a kernel yields PTX compile error for Float64 arrays in Julia 1.12.0 (#643)

v0.9.38

KernelAbstractions v0.9.38

Diff since v0.9.37

Feature changes

• Add API support for unified memory allocations

Merged pull requests:

• [0.9] Unified memory allocations (#632) (@christiangnrd)

v0.9.37

KernelAbstractions v0.9.37

Diff since v0.9.36

Feature changes

• Support @kernel definition inside functions

Merged pull requests:

• Use stacked method tables (#615) (@vchuravy)
• avoid boxing when @kernel is used as a closure (#625) (@simeonschaub)

v0.9.36

KernelAbstractions v0.9.36

Diff since v0.9.35

Feature changes

• get_backend support for StaticArrays

Merged pull requests:

• Use Printf to report errors from POCL (#592) (@vchuravy)
• use unsafe_indices for a few examples (#612) (@vchuravy)
• Switch to SPIRVIntrinsics 0.3 and the new backend (#614) (@vchuravy)
• KA.__synchronize, add GLOBAL_MEM_FENCE semantic (#618) (@vchuravy)
• add get_backend for StaticArrays (#621) (@vchuravy)

Closed issues:

• How to improve CPU performance? (#357)

v0.9.35

KernelAbstractions v0.9.35

Diff since v0.9.34

Merged pull requests:

• Implement a CPU backend using POCL (#556) (@vchuravy)
• [0.10] Forbid divergent execution of work-group barriers (#558) (@vchuravy)
• Bump julia-actions/setup-julia from 1 to 2 (#561) (@dependabot[bot])
• Switch Format.yml to CUDA.jl style (#568) (@vchuravy)
• Test pocl#main on CI (#569) (@vchuravy)
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for SPIRVIntrinsics at version 0.2, (keep existing compat) (#571) (@github-actions[bot])
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for GPUCompiler at version 1, (keep existing compat) (#572) (@github-actions[bot])
• CompatHelper: add new compat entry for LLVM at version 9, (keep existing compat) (#573) (@github-actions[bot])
• Check that malformed allocations throw and don't stackoverflow (#576) (@vchuravy)
• Check that malformed allocations throw and don't stackoverflow (#576) (#577) (@vchuravy)
• Avoid callgraph recursion due to exception branch in get_global_id (#579) (@vchuravy)
• Remove CPU(static=true) test (#580) (@vchuravy)
• Set SPIR-V to 1.2 (#582) (@vchuravy)
• use POCL with fixes (#589) (@vchuravy)
• use barrier with LOCAL_MEM_FENCE (#591) (@vchuravy)
• Test correct backend in examples test (#597) (@christiangnrd)
• Switch to pocl_jll@v7 (#599) (@vchuravy)
• prevent get_backend from overflowing the stack (#602) (@nsajko)
• [NFC] Ignore formatting PRs in blame (#604) (@christiangnrd)
• Enable downstream CI for 0.10 (#608) (@vchuravy)
• Disable Float16 on the CPU backend (#609) (@vchuravy)

Closed issues:

• Exception when getting the index on the CPU backend (#542)
• Undefined variable error in kernel after update to 0.9.34 (#575)
• Utility for copying array to GPU (#581)
• StackOverflowError on get_backend(::UnitRange) (#588)
• KA reports undefined variables, when they are in fact defined (#596)

v0.9.34

KernelAbstractions v0.9.34

Diff since v0.9.33

Merged pull requests:

• Bump googleapis/code-suggester from 2 to 4 (#560) (@dependabot[bot])
• Allow opt-out of implicit bounds-checking (#563) (@vchuravy)
• [0.9] Forbid divergent execution of work-group barriers (#564) (@vchuravy)
• Update Changelog in docs (#565) (@vchuravy)
• Fix docs and test for unsafe_indicies=true (#566) (@vchuravy)
• Fix indicies->indices typo everywhere (#567) (@vchuravy)

v0.9.33

KernelAbstractions v0.9.33

Diff since v0.9.32

Merged pull requests:

• Don't overload Base.ndims(::Any) (#557) (@vchuravy)