Intel Is Hooking OpenCL Beignet In With Their C Media Runtime (CMRT)

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Is Hooking OpenCL Beignet In With Their C Media Runtime (CMRT)

Intel is hooking their Beignet open-source OpenCL Linux implementation into the CMRT, the 01.org C for Media Runtime...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Beignet-CMRT-Tie

[fakenmc]

Well, cl_event not being supported is not a very good idea. It can: 1) break current code; 2) make code that runs on Nvidia/AMD GPUs harder to run/port on/to Intel GPUs; 3) make low-level code profiling harder or impossible to perform.

[gururise]

Lets hope they resolve this...