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9 years ago

Host Channel Support for 17.0

Best I can gather, there should be support for host/FPGA channels as of 17.0 for cross communication. I cannot, however find any documentation on them, most importantly how to implement them from bot...
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9 years ago

Take a look at the "Stream Data" section of this document (http://sa09.idav.ucdavis.edu/docs/sa09-opencl-dg-events-stream.pdf). Even though this is not true streaming, it will allow you to overlap computation and communication to emulate a similar behavior. I am not sure if you can achieve true streaming without the host channels.