v0.9.8

KernelAbstractions v0.9.8

Diff since v0.9.7

Closed issues:

• Reverse CI for AMDGPU (#394)

Merged pull requests:

• Add AMDGPU CI (#409) (@pxl-th)
• Fix inactive rule to only mark constructor of one type as inactive, n… (#412) (@wsmoses)

v0.9.7

KernelAbstractions v0.9.7

Diff since v0.9.6

Closed issues:

• Launch kernels and dependencies (#264)

Merged pull requests:

• Enzyme Rules, all functioning (#382) (@wsmoses)
• Fix CUDA CI (#406) (@vchuravy)
• Update CI pipelines (#407) (@vchuravy)

v0.9.6

KernelAbstractions v0.9.6

Diff since v0.9.5

Merged pull requests:

• Don't use Float64 in tests, as some back-ends do not support it. (#402) (@maleadt)

v0.9.5

KernelAbstractions v0.9.5

Diff since v0.9.4

Closed issues:

• Defining timing infrastructure that works with events. (#15)
• Kernels fail on CPU when waiting on kernels that allocate shared memory (#55)
• Use macros in nested functions (#377)
• CPU(static=true) option (#387)
• Need for @inline when using GPU backend (#392)
• KA seems to be broken for CUDA (#400)

Merged pull requests:

• Add kernel cpu=false and context accessor (#389) (@vchuravy)
• Add reverse CI for oneAPI and AMDGPU (#391) (@vchuravy)
• Update readme (#393) (@vchuravy)
• Improve clarity of numa_aware example (#397) (@carstenbauer)
• Docs: numa aware saxpy example (#398) (@carstenbauer)
• Add implementation notes to host functionality (#401) (@vchuravy)

v0.9.4

KernelAbstractions v0.9.4

Diff since v0.9.3

Merged pull requests:

• Add CPU(static=true) (#388) (@vchuravy)
• Update index.md (#390) (@Ruibin-Liu)

v0.9.3

KernelAbstractions v0.9.3

Diff since v0.9.2

Merged pull requests:

• Migrate from SnoopPrecompile to PrecompileTools (#386) (@timholy)

v0.9.2

KernelAbstractions v0.9.2

Diff since v0.9.1

Closed issues:

• Use occupancy API for autotuning (#19)
• Allow user to turn off contract (#20)
• Assigning ::ROCDevice to ::KA.GPU (#321)
• ROCKernels: using queue pool causes performance regression (#344)
• KernelAbstractions.jl is blocked to v0.8.6 by CUDAKernels (#380)

Merged pull requests:

• CI improvements (#378) (@maleadt)
• Add unsafe_free! (#381) (@pxl-th)

v0.9.1

KernelAbstractions v0.9.1

Diff since v0.9.0

Closed issues:

• Can't run the example in quickstart (#371)

Merged pull requests:

• Add Metal to list of excluded backends (#368) (@maxwindiff)
• Add queries for atomics and float64 support (#369) (@maxwindiff)
• Fix typos (#370) (@tomchor)
• Add reverse CI for Metal PR (#372) (@vchuravy)
• Update reverse CI for CUDA (#373) (@vchuravy)
• Make unit tests skippable (#374) (@maxwindiff)
• Update CUDA to master (#375) (@vchuravy)

v0.9.0

KernelAbstractions v0.9.0

Diff since v0.8.6

Closed issues:

• No speedup on CPU (#322)
• Add Metal support (#326)

Merged pull requests:

• Start removing event system (#317) (@vchuravy)
• Add Metal support (#337) (@tgymnich)
• Prefer blocks over threads (#341) (@vchuravy)
• ROCKernels: Add occupancy API (#342) (@pxl-th)
• [CUDAKernels] add always_inline as device parameter (#343) (@vchuravy)
• [CUDAKernels] Update compat (#345) (@vchuravy)
• Update CI (#346) (@vchuravy)
• ROCKernels: Adapt to AMDGPU changes (#348) (@jpsamaroo)
• [ROCKernels] Fix addrspacecast (#349) (@vchuravy)
• [ROCKernels] Import LLVM (#352) (@pxl-th)
• Update compat for oneAPIKernels.jl (#355) (@utkarsh530)
• Bump oneAPI to 1.0 (#356) (@michel2323)
• Rename device to backend (#359) (@vchuravy)
• Let Event(MtlDevice) actually be a barrier (#360) (@vchuravy)
• Fix Metal workgroup size (#361) (@tgymnich)
• Update docs (#362) (@vchuravy)
• Add optional priority feature (#363) (@vchuravy)
• Backends are adaptors (#364) (@vchuravy)
• Only skip histogram tests on CPU (#365) (@vchuravy)

v0.8.6

KernelAbstractions v0.8.6

Diff since v0.8.5

Closed issues:

• Support for single-threaded kernels even when Threads.nthreads() != 1? (#328)
• Render issue with Docs admonition? (#332)

Merged pull requests:

• Minor fixes in the Docs (#334) (@navidcy)
• Fix quickstart (#335) (@vchuravy)
• setting ndrange macro to output a Tuple (#336) (@leios)