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My B-day came and went a week or so ago, and I noticed it didn't show up in the "member(s) having a birthday today" on the LAVA home page. Not that this is a big deal, but since I've been watching it I haven't seen it be anything other than "0". Is it working, or doesn't anyone else have their B-day posted?

1. What is this? This is a collection of VIs which let labview users use OpenCL without having to learn how to call DLLs themselves. Along with the VIs are two DLLs. Cloo.dll - Object Orientated CL, a OO wrapper library for OpenCL from the CLoo project. The CLoo.dll included is only there to keep VS2010 happy, you may want to download the latest version from the CLoo project page. Cloo4Labview.dll - a utility DLL I wrote containing some code that was easier to write in C# .net 2.0 than in labview. Source is included in the .zip 2. What is OpenCL? It lets you use your GPU to process lots of data. Similar to CUDA or Direct Compute, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL . 3. Screenshots Device properties of an ATI 5800: Device properties of an Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz Q6600: OpenCL vector add test results: Vector Add test block diagram: 7. Disclaimer This project is still under development and is being released because it seems functional and others have expressed interest in it (Hey, maybe others will even contribute improvements!). It probably shouldn't be used in mission critical systems. Use of this software is entirely at your own risk. I hold no responsibility for anything bad that occurs through use of this code including system crashes, data loss, release of magic smoke, nuclear war or zombie apocalypse. I have no obligation to provide support, requests for help will be answered if and when I feel like it and have the time - I'm a PhD student, I have other things to do like write an FFT in OpenCL (I don't like apple's one), sleep and solve Britain's nuclear waste storage issues. 8. Download: CLoo4LabView.zip Hope this proves useful. Feedback, comments suggestions and improvements welcome. Have fun I seem to be having problems porting my whole post (It keeps saying "You must enter a post") So I'll try putting the rest of it here. 4. What has this been tested on? I've tested this on two computers and a total of three devices. 1. Computer 1 - GPU - ATI 5800 with ATI Stream SDK (as seen in device properties screenshot above) 2. Computer 1 - CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 with ATI Stream SDK (as seen in device properties screenshot above) 3. Computer 2 - GPU - Nvidia Geforce 470 with Nvidia GPU SDK (will post screenshot in a few days) Testing has not been extensive - only the two programs shown above have been run on all machines (I also tested changing the vector add to a vector multiply - change the + to a * in the source text, and replace the + to a x in the block diagram for the comparison). 5. Any limitations? * This inherits limitations from it's dependancies. E.g. I don't think CLoo currently supports non-blocking reads at the moment, when CLoo does, you can download the latest CLoo .DLL and all will be well. * OpenCL doesn't support Double precision floats, if you wire a double to any of the polymorphic VIs they internally cast it to a float. If you are reading this in the future and the double data type is supported in OpenCL, you will probably want to make some changes to remove the casts and change the .net method calls to point to the double not the single version of the method. * I haven't included support for unsigned data types - if you want to use them, you can copy-paste-edit the appropiate VIs and C# code. 6. I have no CLoo! CLoo is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloo/ The best site I've found that talks about it is: http://www.opentk.com/

On OSX, LV expects to interface a ".framework" file. It has to be 32 bits as LV on OSX is still 32 bits. The easiest way to produce a framework is to use XCode and select new project / carbon or cocoa framework. XCode will prepare a skeleton ready to be used. As SQLite is built-in OSX, you should use the provided implementation and just write a wrapper around it. It is located in /usr/lib/sqlite3. This wrapper is only a few lines of code I've done similar wrappers for other libs. Let me know if you'd like to have a copy of the XCode project and files. Note that LV does not unload DLL/framework from memory. You have to quit LV. If anyone found an alternative I'm very much interested! Chris