OCLPlayground

Repository containing various OpenCL small applications for learning OpenCL and parallel computing.

Dependencies

1. OpenCL 1.1+ (if using CL/cl.h) from either one of the following SDK
   • Intel OpenCL SDK
   • AMD APP SDK
   • NVIDIA CUDA SDK
2. OpenCL 1.2+ (if using CL/cl.hpp)
   • Same as above
3. MSVC++ Platform Toolset v110+ (VS2012+)

Building

Open and build the respective project solutions with Visual Studio 2012 and above.

Projects

1. OCLApp1 - Introduction to OpenCL
   • How to get platforms and devices that is available
   • How to retrieve information about platforms and devices
   • How to build OpenCL kernel from source
   • How to create kernels
2. OCLApp2 - Introduction to parallel programming
   • How to effectively enqueue kernels with the right work group size and number of work groups
   • How to 'convert' a serial code to parallel code
3. OCLApp3 - Image processing
   • How to perform image convolution (gaussian filter)
   • How to perform parallel reduction
   • How to apply bloom effect to an image
4. OCLApp4 - Pattern matching and prime numbers
   • KMP algorithm
   • Segmented sieve of eratosthenes
   • Pollard's rho algorithm