vulkan_minimal_compute

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code example for learning vulkan compute

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A Minimal Code Example of Using Vulkan for Computations on the GPU

Shown by erkaman on Jun 25, 2017. Click the card to turn it over.

68points

11comments

#648of 2,242 in 2017

Top 29%of 2017 by points

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QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.

Docs: 1 for, 0 against

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Useful for people learning Vulkan thanks to short, well-commented code
From 1 comment
- OP here. This is a small code example of how to use Vulkan for compute operations. Only ~400LOC. It's pretty short, and has plenty of comments, so it should be useful for people…
  erkaman on HN

Add a higher-level wrapper that hides common compute setup details
From 1 comment
- Has someone created a wrapper or higher-level API that takes care of some of the details for common use-cases? For example, say I don't need to optimize my command submittal, or…
  ilaksh on HN
Bring Vulkan into TensorFlow-style projects
From 1 comment
- It would be great to contribute some of this to https://github.com/hughperkins/tf-coriander (which is a port of tensorflow to opencl). Mainline TF is not moving to opencl because…
  sandGorgon on HN

Is Vulkan expected to replace OpenCL for GPGPU?
From 1 comment
- I haven't used GPGPU in a while. Is Vulkan expected to take over from OpenCL?
  sorenjan on HN
How will OpenCL and Vulkan APIs be merged?
From 1 comment
- Can you explain this a bit more clearly? As I understood it, OpenCL's compute API will look like Vulkan's functions and nothing from Vulkan side will change (interpreting this…
  ktta on HN

OpenCL
From 2 comments
- currently OpenCL supports more devices.
  mangix on HN
- I haven't used GPGPU in a while. Is Vulkan expected to take over from OpenCL?
  sorenjan on HN
tf-coriander
From 1 comment
- It would be great to contribute some of this to https://github.com/hughperkins/tf-coriander (which is a port of tensorflow to opencl). Mainline TF is not moving to opencl because…
  sandGorgon on HN