List of OpenCL applications explained

The following list contains a list of computer programs that are built to take advantage of the OpenCL or WebCL heterogeneous compute framework.

Graphics

• ACDSee^[1]
• Adobe Photoshop^{[2] [3] [4]}
• Affinity Photo
• Capture One^[5]
• Blurate^[6]
• darktable^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}
• FAST: imaging Medical^{[11] [12]}
• GIMP^{[13] [14] [15] [16]}
• HALCON by MVTec^[17]
• Helicon Focus^[18]
• ImageMagick^{[19] [20]}
• Musemage^[21]
• Pathfinder,^{[22] [23]} GPU-based font rasterizer
• PhotoScan^{[24] [25]}
• seedimg^[26]

CAD and 3D modelling

• Autodesk Maya^[27]
• Blender GPU rendering with NVIDIA CUDA and OptiX & AMD OpenCL^[28]
• Houdini^[29]
• LuxRender^{[30] [31]}
• Mandelbulber^[32]

Audio, video, and multimedia

• AlchemistXF^[33]
• CUETools^{[34] [35]}
• DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic Design
• FFmpeg^{[36] [37]} has a number of OpenCL filters ^[38]
• gr-fosphor^[39] GNU Radio block for RTSA-like spectrum visualization
• HandBrake^{[40] [41]}
• Final Cut Pro X^[42]
• KNLMeansCL: Denoise plugin for AviSynth^[43]
• Libav^[44]
• OpenCV^[45]
• RealFlow Hybrido2^[46]
• Sony Catalyst
• Vegas Pro by Magix Software GmbH
• vReveal by MotionDSP^[47]
• Total Media Theatre by ArcSoft^{[48] [49]}
• x264^{[50] [51]}
• x265 ^[52]
• h.265/HEVC possible ^[53]

Web (including WebCL)

• Google Chrome (experimental)^[54]
• Mozilla Firefox (experimental)^[55]

Office

• Collabora Online^{[56] [57]}
• LibreOffice Calc^{[58] [59] [60]}

Games

• Military Operations,^[61] operational level real-time strategy game where the complete army is simulated in real-time using OpenCL
• Planet Explorers^{[62] [63]} is using OpenCL to calculate the voxels.
• BeamNG.drive^[64] is going to use OpenCL for the physics engine.
• Leela Zero,^[65] open source replication of Alpha Go Zero using OpenCL for neural network computation.

Scientific computing

• Advanced Simulation Library (ASL)^[66]
• AMD Compute Libraries^[67]
  • clBLAS,^[68] complete set of BLAS level 1, 2 & 3 routines
  • clSPARSE,^[69] routines for sparse matrices
  • clFFT,^[70] FFT routines
  • clRNG,^[71] random numbers generators MRG31k3p, MRG32k3a, LFSR113, and Philox-4×32-10
• ArrayFire: parallel computing with an easy-to-use API with JIT compiler (open source),^{[72] [73]}
• BEAGLE,^{[74] [75]} Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood phylogenetics library
• BigDFT^[76]
• BOINC^[77]
• Bolt,^[78] STL-compatible library for creating accelerated data parallel applications
• Bullet^{[79] [80]}
• CLBlast: tuned clBlas^[81]
• clMAGMA,^{[82] [83]} OpenCL port of the MAGMA project,^[84] a linear algebra library similar to LAPACK
• CP2K: molecular simulations^[85]
• GROMACS: chemical simulations,^{[86] [87] [88]} deprecated OpenCL with Version 2021 with change to SYCL
• HiFlow3: Open source finite elements CFD^{[89] [90]}
• HIP,^[91] CUDA-to-portable C++ compiler
• LAMMPS^[92]
• MDT (Microstructure Diffusion Toolbox): MRI analysis in Python and OpenCL^[93]
• MOT (Multi-threaded Optimization Toolbox): OpenCL accelerated non-linear optimization and MCMC sampling^[94]
• OCCA
• Octopus^[95]
• OpenMM: Part of Omnia Suite, biomolecular simulations^{[96] [97]}
• PARALUTION^[98]
• pyFAI,^[99] Fast Azimuthal Integration in Python
• Random123,^[100] library of counter-based random number generators
• SecondSpace,^[101] simulation software for waves in 2D space
• StarPU,^[102] task programming library
• Theano: Python array library^{[103] [104]}
• UFO,^{[105] [106]} data processing framework
• VexCL,^{[107] [108]} vector expression template library
• ViennaCL^[109] and PyViennaCL,^[110] linear algebra library developed at TU Wien

Cryptography

• BFGMiner,^{[111] [112]}
• Hashcat,^[113] password recovery tool
• John the Ripper,^[114]
• Scallion,^[115] GPU-based Onion hash generator
• Pyrit,^[116] WPA key recovery software

Language bindings

• ClojureCL: parallel OpenCL 2.0 with Clojure^[117]
• dcompute: native Execution of D^[118]
• Erlang OpenCL binding^[119]
• OpenCLAda: Binding Ada to OpenCL^[120]
• OpenCL.jl: Julia bindings^[121]
• PyOpenCL,^[122] Python interface to OpenCL API
• Project Coriander: Conversion CUDA to OpenCL 1.2 with CUDA-on-CL^{[123] [124]}
• Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) contains low-lag Java bindings for OpenCL

Miscellaneous

• clinfo
• clpeak,^[125] peak device capability profiler
• OCLToys,^{[126] [127]} collection of OpenCL examples
• opencl-stream,^[128] OpenCL implementation of the STREAM^[129] benchmark
• SNU NPB,^[130] benchmark
• mixbench,^[131] benchmark tool for evaluating GPUs on mixed operational intensity kernels

See also

• List of OpenGL programs

Notes and References

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68. Web site: clMathLibraries/clBLAS. GitHub. en. 2017-01-27.
69. Web site: clMathLibraries/clSPARSE. GitHub. en. 2017-01-27.
70. Web site: clMathLibraries/clFFT. GitHub. en. 2017-01-27.
71. Web site: clMathLibraries/clRNG. GitHub. en. 2017-01-27.
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