Actually, you don't need a GPU at all to use OpenCL since CPU-only runtime versions exist. Unlike CUDA, you don't need a specific brand of GPUs to start using OpenCL. You can have multiple OpenCL runtime versions installed on the same computer: at any moment, you can select which version to use for SARscape under SARscape → Preferences Common → General Parameters.Īccording to the hardware characteristics of the machine that you plan to use for SARscape, the following sections might help you in finding out how to properly install and configure OpenCL. There are several different OpenCL runtime versions that are designed to work with specific devices such as CPUs, GPUs and accelerators. In order to use SARscape, a working OpenCL version 1.2 (or higher) runtime must be first installed on the target machine.Īn OpenCL runtime is a kind of third-party software driver that allows applications running on the target operating system to execute OpenCL-related operations through the selected OpenCL platform/device. Which is an open standard widely supported by most of the hardware manufacturers and software developers. We based our solution on the Open Computing Language ( OpenCL), In SARscape 5.1 we started the progressive adoption of GPGPU-based technologies to increase the processing performance through improved parallelism.
SARscape 5.* OpenCL Installation Notes Last update: AP 1.
