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OpenCL: program gpu more like a multithread cpu

that might be a noob question but I want to use opencl to take advantage of the dozens of the gpu cores. A couple of days before, when I satrted searching about programing with opencl, I got confused with workgroups, work items, kernels and the logic of opencl. Before I proceed dealing with this staff, here is my quetion:

Can I just assign a thread with code to run in a single gpu compute core (or specified core) just like when you program a multi-core cpu?

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Dithermaster
Dithermaster

Reputation: 6333

No, that's not how it works. In OpenCL you write a kernel that executes a single work item of work. It might be as simple as a memory copy, or could read pixels from source images, mix them together, and write a pixel to an output image. This kernel gets executed across the whole work group (e.g., the whole output image). The runtime makes that happens. It's not like multithreaded CPU code where each thread does different stuff. It's more like having a warehouse full of 1000 interns. Each has a unique employee number, and the stuff in the warehouse has numbers, so you can say things like "look in boxes (your number) and (your number plus 1000) and put the pieces you find inside together and put the new part in box (your number plus 2000)". You say that once in the megaphone, and 1000 parts get built in parallel.

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