Terasic DE5-Net BSP and Altera SDK OpenCL 15.0

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Hi everyone,

I was installing Altera SDK OpenCL 15.0 to use the Terasic DE5-Net but I realized only after I installed Altera software that the de5-net bsp (http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=158&no=526&partno=4) is for Altera SDK OpenCL version 14.0/14.1 and not for version 15.0. As the software was already installed I gave it a try and seams to me that all work properly but I would like to ask if someone knows or foresees a reason to stick with 14.1 instead than the 15.0.

Cheers!

Nicola.

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This question is quite subjective, but my take is if you able to meet your objective with 14.1. There is no reason to switch. right?

Subjective . . . if there is a particular reason is not so subjective.

Anyway, I had everything up and running with the 15.0 so I saw no point to downgrade to 14.1.

Plus the 15.0 implements new interesting features (https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/rn/rn_aocl.pdf).

Sorry but I didn't understand the question.

Double/single core implementation of?

I have one socket with 6 cores, when using Quartus more than one socket get used.

For what concerns OpenCL, so far my code does not use multiple threads but it will soon, plus I guess OpenCL Asynch calls do spawn threads.

I'm curious, why should this make a difference when using AOCL SDK 15.0, 15.1 or 14.1?