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alpaka v0.3.4 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-10-16 // over 5 years ago

  • Compatibility Changes:

    • ➕ added support for boost-1.68.0
    • ➕ added support for CUDA 10
    • 👌 support for glibc < 2.18 (fix missing macros)
    • ➕ added checks for available OpenMP versions

    🐛 Bug Fixes:

    • 🛠 fixed empty(StreamCpuAsync) returning true even though the last task is still in progress
    • 🛠 fixed integer overflows in case of int16_t being used as accelerator index type
    • 👍 made some throwing destructors not throwing to support clang 7
    • 🛠 fixed broken alpaka::math::min for non-integral types

    🆕 New Features:

    • ➕ added prepareForAsyncCopy which can be called to enable async copies for a specific buffer (if it is supported)
    • 👍 allowed to run alpaka OpenMP 2 block accelerated kernels within existing parallel region
    • ➕ added alpaka::ignore_unused which can be used in kernels

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