llvm VS Cgml

Intel's modern compilers (icx, icpx) are clang-based. There is an open-source version [1], and the closed-source version is built atop of this with extra closed-source special sauce.

AOCC and ROCm are also based on LLVM/clang.

[1] https://github.com/intel/llvm

You are not missing anything spec-wise, it is just that particular version of the compiler/runtime doesn't support that query. Support for it was added in intel/llvm#7937 and it should be available in the next oneAPI release.

Install the Intel OpenCL CPU Runtime. AMD CPUs are x86-64 too, so they work just like Intel CPUs do. Afaik, performance is significantly better than with POCL. This also works with EPYC, like the new 96-core Genoa.

The Meson build system Version: 1.0.0 Source dir: /var/home/sri/Projects/simple-oneapi Build dir: /var/home/sri/Projects/simple-oneapi/builddir Build type: native build Project name: simple-oneapi Project version: 0.1.0 C compiler for the host machine: clang (clang 16.0.0 "clang version 16.0.0 (https://github.com/intel/llvm 08be083e07b1fd6437267e26adb92f1b647d57dd)") C linker for the host machine: clang ld.bfd 2.34 C++ compiler for the host machine: clang++ (clang 16.0.0 "clang version 16.0.0 (https://github.com/intel/llvm 08be083e07b1fd6437267e26adb92f1b647d57dd)") C++ linker for the host machine: clang++ ld.bfd 2.34 Host machine cpu family: x86_64 Host machine cpu: x86_64 Build targets in project: 1 Found ninja-1.11.1.git.kitware.jobserver-1 at /var/home/sri/.local/bin/ninja

$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/intel $ sudo mkdir -p /etc/OpenCL/vendors/intel_fpgaemu.icd $ cd /tmp $ wget https://github.com/intel/llvm/releases/download/2022-WW50/oclcpuexp-2022.15.12.0.01_rel.tar.gz $ wget https://github.com/intel/llvm/releases/download/2022-WW50/fpgaemu-2022.15.12.0.01_rel.tar.gz $ sudo bash # cd /opt/intel # mkdir oclfpgaemu- # cd oclfpgaemu- # tar xvfpz /tmp/fpgaemu-2022.15.12.0.01_rel.tar.gz # cd .. # mkdir oclcpuexp_ # cd oclcpuexp- # tar xvfpz /tmp/oclcpuexp- # cd ..

oneAPI includes an implementation of SYCL called DPC++. This implementation supports Intel, Nvidia and AMD GPUs (currently for Nvidia and AMD you need to build the support from the source) but oneAPI also includes some libraries too like oneDNN and oneMKL that use SYCL.

Yes, you can use multiple backends with the same compiled binary. For example you can use DPC++ with Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPU at the same time. ComputeCpp also has the ability to output a binary that can target multiple targets. Each backend generates the ISA for each GPU, and then the SYCL runtime chooses the right one at execution time. There is no ODR violation because each GPU executable is stored on separate ELF sections and loaded at runtime : the C++ linker does not see them. The code doesn't need to have any layers, the only changes you might (but don't have to) make are to optimize for specific processor features.

Intel LLVM SYCL oneAPI DPC++ - an open source implementation of SYCL that is being contributed to the LLVM project

I'm using intel cpu, and after reading this i'm just curious can i set this up with portage? Are there any ebuilds to build this? Do i need whole toolchain from intel site (3Gb+) or just 300 mb tar from their github?

> Meant no offense

None taken.

> computervison project in c#

Yeah, for CV applications nuget.org is indeed not particularly great. Very few people are using C# for these things, people typically choose something else like Python and OpenCV.

BTW, same applies to ML libraries, most folks are using Python/Torch/CUDA stack. For that hobby project https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/ I had to re-implement the entire tech stack in C#/C++/HLSL.

> If there is a future with this idea, its gotta be just shipping the LLM with game right?

That might be a nice application for this library of mine: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/

That’s an open source Mistral ML model implementation which runs on GPUs (all of them, not just nVidia), takes 4.5GB on disk, uses under 6GB of VRAM, and optimized for interactive single-user use case. Probably fast enough for that application.

You wouldn’t want in-game dialogues with the original model though. Game developers would need to finetune, retrain and/or do something else with these weights and/or my implementation.

If you just want to run Mistral on Windows, you could try my port: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/tree/master/Mistral/Mistral...

The setup is relatively easy: install .NET runtime, download 4.5 GB model file from BitTorrent, unpack a small ZIP file and run the EXE.

Speaking about random sampling during inference, most ML models are doing it rather inefficiently.

Here’s a better way: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/blob/master/Readme.md#rando...

My HLSL is easily portable to CUDA, which has `__syncthreads` and `atomicInc` intrinsics.

I did a few times with Direct3D 11 compute shaders. Here’s an open-source example: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml

Pretty sure Vulkan gonna work equally well, at the very least there’s an open source DXVK project which implements D3D11 on top of Vulkan.

Here’s an example of a custom 4 bits/weight codec for ML weights:

https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/blob/master/Readme.md#bcml1...

llama.cpp does it slightly differently but still, AFAIK their quantized data formats are conceptually similar to my codec.

> the API was high-friction due to the shader language, and the glue between shader and CPU

Direct3D 11 compute shaders share these things with Vulkan, yet D3D11 is relatively easy to use. For example, see that library which implements ML-targeted compute shaders for C# with minimal friction: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml The backend implemented in C++ is rather simple, just binds resources and dispatches these shaders.

I think the main usability issue with Vulkan is API design. Vulkan was only designed with AAA game engines in mind. The developers of these game engines have borderline unlimited budgets, and their requirements are very different from ordinary folks who want to leverage GPU hardware.

Minor update https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/releases/tag/1.1a Can’t edit that comment anymore, too late.