Does NVidia support OpenCL SPIR?
gpgpu, nvidia, opencl, parallel-processing
Solution
Since SPIR builds on top of OpenCL version 1.2, and so far Nvidia has not made any OpenCL 1.2 drivers available, it is not possible to use SPIR with Nvidia GPUs. As mentioned in the comments, Nvidia has made PTX available as intermediate language (also based on LLVM IR). One could consider translating SPIR into PTX but I don't know how realistic that would be.
Other vendors such as AMD and Intel are already showing support for SPIR. This can be verified by querying the `CL_DEVICE_EXTENSIONS` with the `clGetDeviceInfo` OpenCL API. If the result string contains `cl_khr_spir`, the driver supports SPIR.
Problem
I am wondering that whether nvidia supports spir backend or not? if yes, i couldn't find any document and sample example about that. but if not, is there a any way to work spir backend onto nvidia gpus? thanks in advance