NEWS for the OpenCL package 0.1-3 2012-05-25 o fix a bug causing device enumeration to use the default device for device count regradless of the specified type. This affects only systems with more than one type of device. (Thanks to Valerio Aimale for reporting) o added dim argument to oclRun() which allows multidimensional indexing (up to 3d) in the kernel. The dimensions can be obtained in the kernel via get_global_size() and the index values with get_global_id(). Note that using index vectors instead of multidimensional indexing may perform better depending on the device. The default is to use single dimension (dim=size) which is the same as previous versions of OpenCL. o add precision="best" in oclSimpleKernel which switches automatically to double-precision if supported by the device o kernels objects are now less cryptic - they implement print(), names() and $ methods for access to their attributes. 0.1-2 2012-03-07 o add the support for asynchronous calls, i.e., execution parallel to the CPU or multiple parallel GPU operations. This is done by using x <- oclRun(..., wait=FALSE) to dispatch the kernel and then oclResult(x) to collect the results later. o minor cleanup 0.1-1 2011-08-09 o improve memory management and clean up on error in oclRun() o use CL_MEM_USE_HOST_PTR instead of clEnqueueWriteBuffer() for better performance on large input vectors o add support for native single precision representation (see ?clFloat and native.result argument in oclRun()) o added INSTALL file with links to common OpenCL implementations 0.1-0 2011-08-08 o first public release includes support for single and double precision computations as well as simple kernels (one output vector, arbitrary input)