Getting Started with the SNU-SAMSUNG OpenCL Framework

1. Download

You can download the gzipped tarball of the latest SNU-SAMSUNG OpenCL Framework distribution here.

2. Build

Put the gzipped tarball in some work directory and untar it. This example uses a work directory called OpenCL.

$user@computer:~/OpenCL$ tar zxvf SNU-SAMSUNG_OpenCL_Framework.1.0.tar.gz

Edit setenv.sh and execute it.

user@computer:~/OpenCL$ vim setenv.sh
...
66 ###################################################
67 # Set up tool and target definitions based on above
68 
69 # Common
70 $EXPORT_CMD CL_TOP="$HOME/OpenCL"<-- modify CL_TOP to your work directory
...

Build the SNU-SAMSUNG OpenCL framework distribution.

user@computer:~/OpenCL$ source setenv.sh
------------------------------------------------------------
SNU-SAMSUNG OpenCL environments
------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS Detected : Linux
Host CPU Detected : ppc
SNU-SAMSUNG OpenCL library : lnx_ppc/libsnusamsung_opencl.a
SNU-SAMSUNG OpenCL CL_TOP : /home/user/OpenCL
------------------------------------------------------------

3. Run

Build a sample OpenCL application (square).

user@computer:~/OpenCL$ ./makeall.sh

Run the application.

user@computer:~/OpenCL/apps/square$ ./square

======================================================
 SNU-SAMSUNG OpenCL Runtime version 1.0
 (build : 21:35:51, Feb 3 2010)
 ------------------------------------------------------
 Device[cpu] : Available CU(s) : 4
 Device[Cell(spu)] : Available CU(s) : 16
 ======================================================
 Computed '262144/262144' correct values!
 Computed '0/262144' incorrect values!
 0.009331 seconds elapsed
 user@computer:~/OpenCL/apps/square$