GeoSpin has released the first version of CLyther for beta testing. Please visit the CLyther SourceForge website for more information.  CLyther enables developers to seamlessly write GPGPU code completely in python with no additional syntax. CLyther’s core driver contains a python compiler to convert Python functions and types to OpenCL during runtime.

CLyther currently only supports a subset of the Python language definition but adds many new features to OpenCL such as:

• OpenCL interface similar to PyOpenCL
• Dynamic compilation of OpenCL code at runtime
• Fast prototyping of OpenCL code
• Create OpenCL code using the Python language definition
• Passing functions as arguments to OpenCL kernels
• Pure Python emulation mode of kernel functions

Future features will include the following.

• Dynamic creation of Device Objects.
• Create and define objects in Python to pass to kernel functions.
• Support for more python built-in functions and types.
• Support for Python iterators.
• Fancy indexing of arrays.
• CLyther compiler to generate pure C/C++ code