The adage with OpenCL is “write once – test everywhere” is being addressed by the Khronos organization through the release of the OpenCL 2.0 test suite.
The Khronos™ Group today announced the availability of the official conformance test suite for the OpenCL 2.0 specification, making it possible for implementers to certify that their implementations are officially conformant thorough the Khronos OpenCL Adopters Program. [Khronos link]
This bodes well for OpenCL “portable parallelism” from DSPs to ARM to Intel Xeon Phi powered supercomputers like the TACC Stampede system.
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