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@BenjaminW3 BenjaminW3 released this 15 Mar 09:48
0.3.0
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This is the third release of alpaka.

Bugs Fixed:

  • fixed multiple bugs where CPU streams/events could deadlock or behaved different than the native CUDA events
  • fixed a bug where the block synchronization of the Boost.Fiber backend crashed due to uninitialized variables

New Features / Enhancements:

  • added support for stream callbacks allowing to enqueue arbitrary host code using alpaka::stream::enqueue(stream, [&](){...});
  • added support for compiling for multiple architectures using e.g. ALPAKA_CUDA_ARCH="20;35"
  • added support for using __host__ constexpr code within __device__ code
  • enhanced the CUDA error handling
  • enhanced the documentation for mapping CUDA to alpaka

Compatibility Changes:

  • added support for CUDA 9.0 and 9.1
  • added support for CMake 3.9 and 3.10
  • removed support for CMake 3.6 and older
  • added support for boost-1.65.0
  • removed support for boost-1.61.0 and older
  • added support for gcc 7
  • added support for clang 4 and 5
  • removed support for VS2015
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