OpenCL with ARM NEON (without Mali GPU) available?

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I working on customized SoC with ARM Cortex-A9.

It supports NEON, but do not has Mali GPU.

With system, can I use OpenCL with NEON?

I found OpenCL SDK for Mali at ARM website.

(http://malideveloper.arm.com/resources/sdks/mali-opencl-sdk/)

but there isn't any words support NEON.

related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25263497/is-it-possible-to-execute-opencl-code-on-arm-cpu-cortex-a7-using-the-mali-open — Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com, Oct 22 '16 at 19:40

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '16 at 11:53

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ARM have previously announced OpenCL for NEON, but these were not directly available to the public, and the 'opencl-for-neon' link on that page now just redirects to the Mali developer page.

You could instead use pocl, an open source implementation of OpenCL that runs on many different platforms, include ARM CPUs with NEON.

answered May 11 '16 at 11:53

jprice

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Thank you for your answer jprice. I will try pocl. :) – soongk May 16 '16 at 01:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 10 '17 at 08:05

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There exist some third party research work on this topic

they created a framework for OpenCL to make use of NEON instructions

check here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261176555_OpenCL_framework_for_ARM_processors_with_NEON_support

answered May 10 '17 at 08:05

Amir ElAttar

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The implementation they have used for their paper appears to remain private. – EFraim Jun 15 '19 at 04:32

OpenCL with ARM NEON (without Mali GPU) available?

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