I'm currently exploring boost_compute. Unfortunately there are less documentation pages and examples, than I need to understand what to do.
Given the following minified code:
BOOST_COMPUTE_FUNCTION(bool, add, (int* values, int* results, int constant),
{
// Whats the indexing variable?
// In opencl it would be get_global_id(0)
int index = // ?
results[index] = values[index] + values[index + 1] + values[index + 2] + constant;
});
void compute(float* results, compute::context* ctx, compute::command_queue* queue)
{
compute::vector<float> device_values(100, *ctx);
compute::vector<float> device_results(98, *ctx);
compute::copy(
parameters->values.begin(), parameters->values.end(), device_values.begin(), *queue
);
// Actual computation
// HOW TO CALL 'add' for every device_results element?
compute::copy(
device_results.begin(), device_results.end(), results, *queue
);
}
How to call the 'add' function and what's the iterating variable inside of this function? Furthermore I need this structure of code to make more complex calculation.
Kind Regards, Toni
In short boost:compute
functions are not OpenCL
kernel functions. They are more like OpenGL
kernel functions.
I believe that your function takes too many parameters to be used with the boost:compute
algorithms.
However, a slightly simpler function, just adding adjacent values without the constant, would be:
BOOST_COMPUTE_FUNCTION(boost::compute::float_, add,
(boost::compute::float_ values0, boost::compute::float_ values1),
{
return values0 + values1;
});
And could be called using boost::compute::transform
as @ddemidov suggested:
boost::compute::transform(values.begin(), values.end() -1, // values0
values.begin() +1, // values1
results.begin(), // results
add, queue);
It may be possible to implement your function using boost::compute::lambda
functions. e.g.:
using namespace boost::compute::lambda;
float c = 1.234; // some constant
boost::compute::transform(values.begin(), values.end() -1, // values0
values.begin() +1, // values1
results.begin(), // results
_1 + _2 + c, queue);
But it's still short of a set of values...
Your function could be written as an OpenCL
kernel in boost:compute
using the BOOST_COMPUTE_STRINGIZE_SOURCE
macro:
const char kernel_function_source[] = BOOST_COMPUTE_STRINGIZE_SOURCE(
kernel void add(global float* values, global float* results, global float* constant)
{
size_t index = get_global_id(0);
results[index] = values[index] + values[index + 1] + values[index + 2] + *constant;
}
);
After you've built your kernel program and created your kernel (using boost::compute::program
), you can set the kernel arguments individually and call the boost::compute::command_queue
enqueue_1d_range_kernel
function:
kernel.set_arg(0, values.get_buffer());
kernel.set_arg(1, results.get_buffer());
kernel.set_arg(2, &constant);
queue.enqueue_1d_range_kernel(kernel, 0, count, 0);