TornadoVM v1.0

[jjfumero]

TornadoVM 1.0

05/12/2023

Improvements

• Brand-new API for allocating off-heap objects and array collections using the Panama Memory Segment API.
  • New Arrays, Matrix and Vector type objects are allocated using the Panama API.
  • Migration of existing applications to use the new Panama-based types: https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/offheap-types.html
• Handling of the TornadoVM's internal bytecode improved to avoid write-only copies from host to device.
• cospi and sinpi math operations supported for OpenCL, PTX and SPIR-V.
• Vector 16 data types supported for float, double and int.
• Support for Mesa's rusticl.
• Device default ordering improved based on maximum thread size.
• Move all the installation and configuration scripts from Bash to Python.
• The installation process has been improved for Linux and OSx with M1/M2 chips.
• Documentation improved.
• Add profiling information for the testing scripts.

Compatibility/Integration

• Integration with the Graal 23.1.0 JIT Compiler.
• Integration with OpenJDK 21.
• Integration with Truffle Languages (Python, Ruby and Javascript) using Graal 23.1.0.
• TornadoVM API Refactored.
• Backport bug-fixes for branch using OpenJDK 17: master-jdk17

Bug fixes:

• Multiple SPIR-V Devices fixed.
• Runtime Exception when no SPIR-V devices are present.
• Issue with the kernel context API when invoking multiple kernels fixed.
• MTMD mode is fixed when running multiple backends on the same device.
• long type as a constant parameter for a kernel fixed.
• FPGA Compilation and Execution fixed for AWS and Xilinx devices.
• Batch processing fixed for different data types of the same size.

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