TornadoVM v0.9

15/04/2021

• Expanded API for expressing kernel parallelism within Java. It can work with the existing loop parallelism in TornadoVM.
  • Direct access to thread-ids, OpenCL local memory (PTX shared memory), and barriers
  • TornadoVMContext added:
    • See https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM/blob/master/tornado-api/src/main/java/uk/ac/manchester/tornado/api/TornadoVMContext.java
  • Code examples:
    • https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM/tree/master/examples/src/main/java/uk/ac/manchester/tornado/examples/tornadovmcontext
  • Documentation:
    • https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM/blob/master/assembly/src/docs/21_TORNADOVM_CONTEXT.md
• Profiler integrated with Chrome debug:
  • Use flags: -Dtornado.chrome.event.tracer.enabled=True -Dtornado.chrome.event.tracer.filename=userFile.json
  • See #41
• Added support for Windows 10:
  • See https://github.com/beehive-lab/TornadoVM/blob/develop/assembly/src/docs/20_INSTALL_WINDOWS_WITH_GRAALVM.md
• TornadoVM running with Windows JDK 11 supported (Linux & Windows)
• Xilinx FPGAs workflow supported for Vitis 2020.2
• Pre-compiled tasks for Xilinx/Intel FPGAs fixed
• Slambench fixed when compiling for PTX and OpenCL backends
• Several bug fixes for the runtime, JIT compiler and data management.