I have a MacBook Pro 13' with an integrated Intel HD 3000 and a i7 core.
I have to use Parallel Programming.
My teaching advisors couldn't tell me if it would work with my MacBook.
Is there a test I could run on my Laptop for testing? + I found this, but there is only a Linux and Windows SDK ... maybe the Linux version works also for Mac.
What should I do?
vocaro's answer is absolutely correct; you can always use the CPU compute device on Snow Leopard and Lion, even if your particular graphics chip doesn't support OpenCL.
The following program will show you the OpenCL-capable devices on a given Macintosh:
// clang -framework OpenCL dumpcl.c -o dumpcl && ./dumpcl
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <OpenCL/opencl.h>
int main(int argc, char* const argv[]) {
cl_uint num_devices, i;
clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL, 0, NULL, &num_devices);
cl_device_id* devices = calloc(sizeof(cl_device_id), num_devices);
clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL, num_devices, devices, NULL);
char buf[128];
for (i = 0; i < num_devices; i++) {
clGetDeviceInfo(devices[i], CL_DEVICE_NAME, 128, buf, NULL);
fprintf(stdout, "Device %s supports ", buf);
clGetDeviceInfo(devices[i], CL_DEVICE_VERSION, 128, buf, NULL);
fprintf(stdout, "%s\n", buf);
}
free(devices);
}
On my Macbook, this gives:
Device Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2635QM CPU @ 2.00GHz supports OpenCL 1.1
Device ATI Radeon HD 6490M supports OpenCL 1.1
You can ask for other device information using this program as a starting point. The Khronos API reference for clGetDeviceInfo should be useful.
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