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@veer66 Hi Project maintainer of Aparapi here... Depends, what are you trying to do exactly?

@freemo I want to use it to accelerate ffmpeg, openmm, and mxnet.

@veer66 Out of the box or are you suggesting you want to rewrite the source code (or add to it) for those projects to add vulkan support?

@veer66 Out of the box, im not really sure if vulkan is supported by those projects, youd have to check with the respective projects. But could you code it in, sure, but youd be using "Vulkan Compute" not plain old "vulkan", same software and all its just the compute part isnt as well documented and the vast majority of people use it for graphics not compute.

With that said it may not be a better choice than OpenCL, while it can be used and isnt a bad platform and everything, each have their strengths and one may want to pick one over the other vor various reasons, most notable the fundamentally different paradigms they each employ.

but yes it does do GPGPU and not just graphics.

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