CLBlast/CHANGELOG


Development version (next release)
- It is now possible to set OpenCL compiler options through the env variable CLBLAST_BUILD_OPTIONS
- Fixed a bug in the tests and samples related to waiting for an invalid event

Version 0.9.0
- Updated to version 6.0 of the CLCudaAPI C++11 OpenCL header
- Improved performance significantly of rotated GEMV computations
- Improved performance of unseen/un-tuned devices by a better default tuning parameter selection
- Fixed proper MSVC dllimport and dllexport declarations
- Fixed memory leaks related to events not being released
- Fixed a bug with a size_t and cl_ulong mismatch on 32-bit systems
- Fixed a bug related to the cache and retrieval of programs based on the OpenCL context
- Fixed a performance issue (caused by fp16 support) by optimizing alpha/beta parameter passing to kernels
- Fixed a bug in the OpenCL kernels: now placing __kernel before __attribute__
- Fixed a bug in level-3 routines when beta is zero and matrix C contains NaNs
- Added an option (-warm_up) to do a warm-up run before timing in the performance clients
- Various minor fixes and enhancements
- Added tuned parameters for various devices (see README)

Version 0.8.0
- Added support for half-precision floating-point (fp16) in the library
- Made it possible to compile the performance tests (clients) separately from the correctness tests
- Made a reference BLAS and head-to-head performance comparison optional in the clients
- Increased the verbosity of the "-verbose" option in the correctness tests
- Refactored the host code for better compilation times and fewer lines of code
- Added Appveyor continuous integration and increased coverage of the Travis builds
- Improved the API documentation
- Various minor fixes and enhancements
- Added tuned parameters for various devices (see README)
- Added half-precision routines:
  * Level-1: HSWAP/HSCAL/HCOPY/HAXPY/HDOT/HNRM2/HASUM/HSUM/iHAMAX/iHMAX/iHMIN
  * Level-2: HGEMV/HGBMV/HHEMV/HHBMV/HHPMV/HSYMV/HSBMV/HSPMV/HTRMV/HTBMV/HTPMV/HGER/HSYR/HSPR/HSYR2/HSPR2
  * Level-3: HGEMM/HSYMM/HSYRK/HSYR2K/HTRMM
- Added non-BLAS routines:
  * SOMATCOPY/DOMATCOPY/COMATCOPY/ZOMATCOPY/HOMATCOPY (matrix copy, scaling, and/or transpose)

Version 0.7.1
- Improved performance of large power-of-2 xGEMM kernels for AMD GPUs
- Fixed a bug in the xGEMM routine related to the event incorrectly set
- Made MSVC link the run-time libraries statically

Version 0.7.0
- Added exports to be able to create a DLL on Windows (thanks to Marco Hutter)
- Made the library thread-safe
- Performance and correctness tests can now (on top of clBLAS) be performed against CPU BLAS libraries
- Fixed the use of events within the library
- Changed the enum parameters to match the raw values of the cblas standard
- Fixed the cache of previously compiled binaries and added a function to fill or clear it
- Various minor fixes and enhancements
- Added a preliminary version of the API documentation
- Added additional sample programs
- Added tuned parameters for various devices (see README)
- Added level-1 routines:
  * SNRM2/DNRM2/ScNRM2/DzNRM2
  * SASUM/DASUM/ScASUM/DzASUM
  * SSUM/DSUM/ScSUM/DzSUM (non-absolute version of the above xASUM BLAS routines)
  * iSAMAX/iDAMAX/iCAMAX/iZAMAX
  * iSMAX/iDMAX/iCMAX/iZMAX (non-absolute version of the above ixAMAX BLAS routines)
  * iSMIN/iDMIN/iCMIN/iZMIN (non-absolute minimum version of the above ixAMAX BLAS routines)

Version 0.6.0
- Added support for MSVC (Visual Studio) 2015
- Added tuned parameters for various devices (see README)
- Now automatically generates C++ code from JSON tuning results
- Added level-2 routines:
  * SGER/DGER
  * CGERU/ZGERU
  * CGERC/ZGERC
  * CHER/ZHER
  * CHPR/ZHPR
  * CHER2/ZHER2
  * CHPR2/ZHPR2
  * CSYR/ZSYR
  * CSPR/ZSPR
  * CSYR2/ZSYR2
  * CSPR2/ZSPR2

Version 0.5.0
- Improved structure and performance of level-2 routines (xSYMV/xHEMV)
- Reduced compilation time of level-3 OpenCL kernels
- Added level-1 routines:
  * SSWAP/DSWAP/CSWAP/ZSWAP
  * SSCAL/DSCAL/CSCAL/ZSCAL
  * SCOPY/DCOPY/CCOPY/ZCOPY
  * SDOT/DDOT
  * CDOTU/ZDOTU
  * CDOTC/ZDOTC
- Added level-2 routines:
  * SGBMV/DGBMV/CGBMV/ZGBMV
  * CHBMV/ZHBMV
  * CHPMV/ZHPMV
  * SSBMV/DSBMV
  * SSPMV/DSPMV
  * STRMV/DTRMV/CTRMV/ZTRMV
  * STBMV/DTBMV/CTBMV/ZTBMV
  * STPMV/DTPMV/CTPMV/ZTPMV

Version 0.4.0
- Now using the Claduc C++11 interface to OpenCL
- Added plain C API for increased compatibility (clblast_c.h)
- Re-organized tuner infrastructure and added JSON output
- Removed clBLAS sources, it should now be installed separately for testing
- Added Travis continuous integration
- Added level-2 routines:
  * CHEMV/ZHEMV
  * SSYMV/DSYMV

Version 0.3.0
- Re-organized test/client infrastructure to avoid code duplication
- Added an optional bypass for pre/post-processing kernels in level-3 routines
- Significantly improved performance of level-3 routines on AMD GPUs
- Added level-3 routines:
  * CHEMM/ZHEMM
  * SSYRK/DSYRK/CSYRK/ZSYRK
  * CHERK/ZHERK
  * SSYR2K/DSYR2K/CSYR2K/ZSYR2K
  * CHER2K/ZHER2K
  * STRMM/DTRMM/CTRMM/ZTRMM

Version 0.2.0
- Added support for complex conjugate transpose
- Several host-code performance improvements
- Improved testing infrastructure and coverage
- Added level-2 routines:
  * SGEMV/DGEMV/CGEMV/ZGEMV
- Added level-3 routines:
  * CGEMM/ZGEMM
  * CSYMM/ZSYMM

Version 0.1.0
- Initial preview version release to GitHub
- Supported level-1 routines:
  * SAXPY/DAXPY/CAXPY/ZAXPY
- Supported level-3 routines:
  * SGEMM/DGEMM
  * SSYMM/DSYMM
Initial commit of preview version 2015-05-30 12:30:43 +02:00
It is now possible to set the OpenCL compiler options through an environmental variable 2016-09-21 21:22:16 +02:00			`Development version (next release)`
			`- It is now possible to set OpenCL compiler options through the env variable CLBLAST_BUILD_OPTIONS`
Fixed a bug waiting for an invalid event in case of a non-succesfull CLBlast call in the tests and samples 2016-09-22 20:47:22 +02:00			`- Fixed a bug in the tests and samples related to waiting for an invalid event`
It is now possible to set the OpenCL compiler options through an environmental variable 2016-09-21 21:22:16 +02:00
Updated to version 0.9.0 2016-09-13 19:20:39 +02:00			`Version 0.9.0`
Updated to version 6.0 of the CLCudaAPI header 2016-06-29 19:42:49 +02:00			`- Updated to version 6.0 of the CLCudaAPI C++11 OpenCL header`
The GEMM kernel no longer adds beta*C in case beta is zero; this would cause problems if C contains NaNs 2016-09-04 17:21:16 +02:00			`- Improved performance significantly of rotated GEMV computations`
			`- Improved performance of unseen/un-tuned devices by a better default tuning parameter selection`
Added declspec(dllexport) to ClearCache and FillCache, and added declspec(dllimport) when not building the library 2016-06-30 10:49:17 +02:00			`- Fixed proper MSVC dllimport and dllexport declarations`
Fixed some memory leaks related to events not properly cleaned-up 2016-07-02 15:34:55 +02:00			`- Fixed memory leaks related to events not being released`
Added tuning results for GTX670, GTX750, and GTX1070 (thanks to gcp) 2016-07-03 20:30:47 +02:00			`- Fixed a bug with a size_t and cl_ulong mismatch on 32-bit systems`
Cache now compares cl_context instead of a pointer to a context; added verbose print statements to the cache 2016-07-08 20:57:58 +02:00			`- Fixed a bug related to the cache and retrieval of programs based on the OpenCL context`
Now passing alpha/beta to the kernel as arguments as before fp16 support; in case of fp16 arguments are cast on host and in kernel 2016-07-10 20:32:01 +02:00			`- Fixed a performance issue (caused by fp16 support) by optimizing alpha/beta parameter passing to kernels`
Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/dvasschemacq/CLBlast into dvasschemacq-master Conflicts: src/kernels/level1/xaxpy.opencl src/kernels/level2/xgemv.opencl src/kernels/level2/xgemv_fast.opencl src/kernels/level2/xger.opencl src/kernels/level2/xher.opencl src/kernels/level2/xher2.opencl src/kernels/level3/xgemm_part2.opencl 2016-08-20 12:50:31 +02:00			`- Fixed a bug in the OpenCL kernels: now placing __kernel before __attribute__`
The GEMM kernel no longer adds beta*C in case beta is zero; this would cause problems if C contains NaNs 2016-09-04 17:21:16 +02:00			`- Fixed a bug in level-3 routines when beta is zero and matrix C contains NaNs`
Added an option to the performance clients to do a warm-up run before timing 2016-07-06 21:25:55 +02:00			`- Added an option (-warm_up) to do a warm-up run before timing in the performance clients`
Minor update regarding the previous CMake export/install target changes 2016-07-28 20:45:09 +02:00			`- Various minor fixes and enhancements`
Added tuning results for GTX670, GTX750, and GTX1070 (thanks to gcp) 2016-07-03 20:30:47 +02:00			`- Added tuned parameters for various devices (see README)`
Prepared the changelog for the next release 2016-06-28 22:33:13 +02:00
Updated to version 0.8.0 2016-06-28 21:32:00 +02:00			`Version 0.8.0`
Made use of CMake's built-in unit testing, allowing all tests to be run using 'make test' 2016-05-31 20:53:55 +02:00			`- Added support for half-precision floating-point (fp16) in the library`
Separated the performance tests (clients) from the correctness tests in CMake 2016-05-30 16:38:26 +02:00			`- Made it possible to compile the performance tests (clients) separately from the correctness tests`
			`- Made a reference BLAS and head-to-head performance comparison optional in the clients`
Increased the verbosity of the -verbose option in the correctness tests 2016-05-30 20:07:09 +02:00			`- Increased the verbosity of the "-verbose" option in the correctness tests`
Renamed all C++ source files to .cpp to match the .hpp extension better 2016-06-19 13:55:49 +02:00			`- Refactored the host code for better compilation times and fewer lines of code`
Added Appveyor Windows CI support 2016-06-27 12:47:39 +02:00			`- Added Appveyor continuous integration and increased coverage of the Travis builds`
Improved API documentation and added documentation for level-2 and level-3 routines 2016-06-13 20:17:26 +02:00			`- Improved the API documentation`
Made use of CMake's built-in unit testing, allowing all tests to be run using 'make test' 2016-05-31 20:53:55 +02:00			`- Various minor fixes and enhancements`
Added tuning parameters for 'GRID K520' and 'HD Graphics Skylake ULT GT2' 2016-06-01 09:39:33 +02:00			`- Added tuned parameters for various devices (see README)`
Added level-1 half-precision routines HSWAP/HSCAL/HCOPY/HAXPY/HDOT/HNRM2/HASUM/HSUM/iHAMAX/iHMAX/iHMIN 2016-05-22 14:47:14 +02:00			`- Added half-precision routines:`
			`* Level-1: HSWAP/HSCAL/HCOPY/HAXPY/HDOT/HNRM2/HASUM/HSUM/iHAMAX/iHMAX/iHMIN`
Added level-2 half-precision routines HGER/HSYR/HSPR/HSYR2/HSPR2 2016-05-22 16:59:14 +02:00			`* Level-2: HGEMV/HGBMV/HHEMV/HHBMV/HHPMV/HSYMV/HSBMV/HSPMV/HTRMV/HTBMV/HTPMV/HGER/HSYR/HSPR/HSYR2/HSPR2`
Added level-3 half-precision routines HGEMM/HSYMM/HSYRK/HSYR2K/HTRMM 2016-05-25 13:29:53 +02:00			`* Level-3: HGEMM/HSYMM/HSYRK/HSYR2K/HTRMM`
Added XOMATCOPY routines to perform out-of-place matrix scaling, copying, and/or transposing 2016-06-16 18:07:46 +02:00			`- Added non-BLAS routines:`
			`* SOMATCOPY/DOMATCOPY/COMATCOPY/ZOMATCOPY/HOMATCOPY (matrix copy, scaling, and/or transpose)`
Prepared the changelog for the next release 2016-05-08 21:30:04 +02:00
Merged in latest changes from 0.7.1 release 2016-05-18 21:32:56 +02:00			`Version 0.7.1`
			`- Improved performance of large power-of-2 xGEMM kernels for AMD GPUs`
			`- Fixed a bug in the xGEMM routine related to the event incorrectly set`
			`- Made MSVC link the run-time libraries statically`
Prepared the changelog for the next release 2016-05-18 21:26:20 +02:00
Updated to version 0.7.0 2016-05-08 20:29:41 +02:00			`Version 0.7.0`
Fixed the C-api export to be able to properly build a DLL on Windows 2016-03-23 20:49:28 +01:00			`- Added exports to be able to create a DLL on Windows (thanks to Marco Hutter)`
Made the library thread-safe by guarding the kernel cache with a mutex 2016-03-14 22:55:22 +01:00			`- Made the library thread-safe`
Updated the documentation in light of the support for a reference CPU BLAS library 2016-04-04 01:07:25 +02:00			`- Performance and correctness tests can now (on top of clBLAS) be performed against CPU BLAS libraries`
Updated the documentation 2016-04-01 05:20:32 +02:00			`- Fixed the use of events within the library`
Moved all cache-related functions to a separate file; added a ClearCompiledProgramCache function to clear the cache 2016-04-27 16:02:13 +02:00			`- Changed the enum parameters to match the raw values of the cblas standard`
Added non-aboslute minimum counter-part IxMIN of the BLAS routine IxAMAX 2016-04-30 09:49:39 +02:00			`- Fixed the cache of previously compiled binaries and added a function to fill or clear it`
Added an option to the tests to control whether to test against clBLAS or a CPU BLAS library 2016-05-07 12:22:06 +02:00			`- Various minor fixes and enhancements`
Added preliminary generated API documentation 2016-05-08 09:49:00 +02:00			`- Added a preliminary version of the API documentation`
Added non-aboslute minimum counter-part IxMIN of the BLAS routine IxAMAX 2016-04-30 09:49:39 +02:00			`- Added additional sample programs`
Added tuning results for AMD Hawaii (R9 290X) 2016-05-02 20:20:23 +02:00			`- Added tuned parameters for various devices (see README)`
Updated the documentation 2016-04-01 05:20:32 +02:00			`- Added level-1 routines:`
			`* SNRM2/DNRM2/ScNRM2/DzNRM2`
Updated the reduction-kernel tuner to also tune the epilogue 2016-04-15 05:37:52 +02:00			`* SASUM/DASUM/ScASUM/DzASUM`
Added non-absolute counter-parts xSUM and IxMAX of the BLAS routines xASUM and IxAMAX 2016-04-27 18:07:30 +02:00			`* SSUM/DSUM/ScSUM/DzSUM (non-absolute version of the above xASUM BLAS routines)`
Added support for the iSAMAX/iDAMAX/iCAMAX/iZAMAX routines 2016-04-21 06:12:51 +02:00			`* iSAMAX/iDAMAX/iCAMAX/iZAMAX`
Added non-absolute counter-parts xSUM and IxMAX of the BLAS routines xASUM and IxAMAX 2016-04-27 18:07:30 +02:00			`* iSMAX/iDMAX/iCMAX/iZMAX (non-absolute version of the above ixAMAX BLAS routines)`
Added non-aboslute minimum counter-part IxMIN of the BLAS routine IxAMAX 2016-04-30 09:49:39 +02:00			`* iSMIN/iDMIN/iCMIN/iZMIN (non-absolute minimum version of the above ixAMAX BLAS routines)`
Prepared the changelog for the next release 2016-03-13 11:09:02 +01:00
Updated to version 0.6.0 2016-03-13 11:02:40 +01:00			`Version 0.6.0`
Updated the changelog 2016-02-10 21:32:09 +01:00			`- Added support for MSVC (Visual Studio) 2015`
			`- Added tuned parameters for various devices (see README)`
			`- Now automatically generates C++ code from JSON tuning results`
Updated the changelog with newly supported level-2 routines 2016-02-28 16:37:49 +01:00			`- Added level-2 routines:`
			`* SGER/DGER`
			`* CGERU/ZGERU`
			`* CGERC/ZGERC`
			`* CHER/ZHER`
			`* CHPR/ZHPR`
Added preliminary support for xHPR2 and xSPR2 routines 2016-03-06 15:48:11 +01:00			`* CHER2/ZHER2`
			`* CHPR2/ZHPR2`
Updated the changelog with newly supported level-2 routines 2016-02-28 16:37:49 +01:00			`* CSYR/ZSYR`
			`* CSPR/ZSPR`
Added preliminary support for xHPR2 and xSPR2 routines 2016-03-06 15:48:11 +01:00			`* CSYR2/ZSYR2`
			`* CSPR2/ZSPR2`
Prepared the changelog for the next release 2015-10-17 15:57:04 +02:00
Updated to version 0.5.0 2015-10-17 15:48:13 +02:00			`Version 0.5.0`
Improved the organization and performance of level 2 routines 2015-09-18 17:46:41 +02:00			`- Improved structure and performance of level-2 routines (xSYMV/xHEMV)`
Added guards for routine-specific level-3 pad kernels 2015-10-13 08:29:45 +02:00			`- Reduced compilation time of level-3 OpenCL kernels`
Added the XSWAP, XSCAL and XCOPY level-1 routines 2015-08-22 17:11:20 +02:00			`- Added level-1 routines:`
			`* SSWAP/DSWAP/CSWAP/ZSWAP`
			`* SSCAL/DSCAL/CSCAL/ZSCAL`
			`* SCOPY/DCOPY/CCOPY/ZCOPY`
Added xDOT/xDOTU/xDOTC dot-product routines 2015-09-14 16:57:00 +02:00			`* SDOT/DDOT`
			`* CDOTU/ZDOTU`
			`* CDOTC/ZDOTC`
Added first version of banded matrix-vector multiplication 2015-09-18 15:25:20 +02:00			`- Added level-2 routines:`
			`* SGBMV/DGBMV/CGBMV/ZGBMV`
Added the HBMV routine 2015-09-19 11:11:34 +02:00			`* CHBMV/ZHBMV`
Added the HPMV routine 2015-09-19 17:40:38 +02:00			`* CHPMV/ZHPMV`
Added SBMV and SPMV routines 2015-09-19 18:01:19 +02:00			`* SSBMV/DSBMV`
			`* SSPMV/DSPMV`
Added TRMV/TBMV/TPMV routines 2015-09-26 16:58:03 +02:00			`* STRMV/DTRMV/CTRMV/ZTRMV`
			`* STBMV/DTBMV/CTBMV/ZTBMV`
			`* STPMV/DTPMV/CTPMV/ZTPMV`
Prepared the changelog for the next release 2015-08-22 12:50:26 +02:00
Updated to version 0.4.0 2015-08-22 12:41:40 +02:00			`Version 0.4.0`
Updated documentation reflecting removal of clBLAS sources 2015-07-31 11:15:48 +02:00			`- Now using the Claduc C++11 interface to OpenCL`
Added the plain C API 2015-08-13 18:00:09 +02:00			`- Added plain C API for increased compatibility (clblast_c.h)`
Updated the documentation 2015-08-22 12:40:18 +02:00			`- Re-organized tuner infrastructure and added JSON output`
			`- Removed clBLAS sources, it should now be installed separately for testing`
			`- Added Travis continuous integration`
Added HEMV and SYMV 2015-07-31 17:44:17 +02:00			`- Added level-2 routines:`
			`* CHEMV/ZHEMV`
			`* SSYMV/DSYMV`
Prepared the changelog for the next release 2015-07-24 20:50:00 +02:00
Updated to version 0.3.0 2015-07-24 08:25:32 +02:00			`Version 0.3.0`
Re-organized test and client infrastructure 2015-06-29 20:42:34 +02:00			`- Re-organized test/client infrastructure to avoid code duplication`
Updated the docs to reflect the performance improvements 2015-07-24 08:16:41 +02:00			`- Added an optional bypass for pre/post-processing kernels in level-3 routines`
			`- Significantly improved performance of level-3 routines on AMD GPUs`
Added the SYRK routine 2015-06-24 07:52:19 +02:00			`- Added level-3 routines:`
Added HEMM, HERK, HER2K, and TRMM 2015-07-12 15:14:35 +02:00			`* CHEMM/ZHEMM`
Added the SYRK routine 2015-06-24 07:52:19 +02:00			`* SSYRK/DSYRK/CSYRK/ZSYRK`
Added HEMM, HERK, HER2K, and TRMM 2015-07-12 15:14:35 +02:00			`* CHERK/ZHERK`
Added the SYR2K routine, tester, and client 2015-06-26 08:12:56 +02:00			`* SSYR2K/DSYR2K/CSYR2K/ZSYR2K`
Added HEMM, HERK, HER2K, and TRMM 2015-07-12 15:14:35 +02:00			`* CHER2K/ZHER2K`
			`* STRMM/DTRMM/CTRMM/ZTRMM`
Added the SYRK routine 2015-06-24 07:52:19 +02:00
Updated to version 0.2.0 2015-06-21 09:13:08 +02:00			`Version 0.2.0`
Updated with conjugate transpose and CGEMM/ZGEMM CSYMM/ZSYMM 2015-06-17 07:12:45 +02:00			`- Added support for complex conjugate transpose`
Updated changelog with testing improvements 2015-06-20 16:47:50 +02:00			`- Several host-code performance improvements`
			`- Improved testing infrastructure and coverage`
Added GEMV to changelog and readme 2015-06-15 08:41:37 +02:00			`- Added level-2 routines:`
Updated changelog with testing improvements 2015-06-20 16:47:50 +02:00			`* SGEMV/DGEMV/CGEMV/ZGEMV`
Updated with conjugate transpose and CGEMM/ZGEMM CSYMM/ZSYMM 2015-06-17 07:12:45 +02:00			`- Added level-3 routines:`
Updated changelog with testing improvements 2015-06-20 16:47:50 +02:00			`* CGEMM/ZGEMM`
			`* CSYMM/ZSYMM`
Added GEMV to changelog and readme 2015-06-15 08:41:37 +02:00
Initial commit of preview version 2015-05-30 12:30:43 +02:00			`Version 0.1.0`
			`- Initial preview version release to GitHub`
			`- Supported level-1 routines:`
Updated changelog with testing improvements 2015-06-20 16:47:50 +02:00			`* SAXPY/DAXPY/CAXPY/ZAXPY`
Initial commit of preview version 2015-05-30 12:30:43 +02:00			`- Supported level-3 routines:`
Updated changelog with testing improvements 2015-06-20 16:47:50 +02:00			`* SGEMM/DGEMM`
			`* SSYMM/DSYMM`