TornadoVM 1.0.9

Improvements

• #573: Enhanced output of unit-tests with a summary of pass-rates and fail-rates.
• #576: Extended support for 3D matrices.
• #580: Extended debug information for execution plans.
• #584: Added helper menu for the tornado launcher script when no arguments are passed.
• #589: Enable partial loop unrolling for all backends.
• #594: Added RISC-V 64 CPU port support to run OpenCL with vector instructions RVV 1.0 (using the Codeplay OCK Toolkit).
• #598: OpenCL low-level buffers tagged as read, write and read/write based on the data dependency analysis.
• #601: Feature to select an immutable task graph to execute from a multi-task graph execution plan.

Compatibility

• #570: Extended timeout for all suite of unit-tests.
• #579: Removed legacy JDK 8 and JDK11 build options from the TornadoVM installer.
• #582: Restored tornado runner scripts for IntellIJ.
• #583: Automatic generation of IDE IntelliJ configuration runner files from the TornadoVM command.
• #597: Updated white-list of unit-test and checkstyle improved.

Bug Fixes

• #571: Fix issues with bracket closing for if/loops conditions.
• #572: Fix for printing default execution plans (execution plans with default parameters).
• #575: Fix the Level Zero version used for building the SPIR-V backend.
• #577: Fix checkstyle.
• #587: Fix thread scheduler for new NVIDIA Drivers.
• #592: Fix Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY and Float.NEGATIVE_INFINITIVE constants for the OpenCL, CUDA and SPIR-V backends.
• #596: Fix extra closing bracket during the code-generation for the FPGAs.
• Remove the intermediate CUDA pinned memory regions in the JNI code: link
• Fix bitwise negation operations for the PTX backend: link
• GetBackendImpl::getAllDevices thread-safe: link
• Check size elements for memory segments: link

Full Changelog

v1.0.8...v1.0.9

Docs

https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.9/

How to build

Select the backend/s you want.

## To enable all backends
./bin/tornadovm-installer --jdk jdk21 --backend=opencl,spirv,ptx

## To enable just OpenCL
./bin/tornadovm-installer --jdk jdk21 --backend=opencl

## To enable just OpenCL and SPIRV
./bin/tornadovm-installer --jdk jdk21 --backend=opencl, spirv

# etc.

TornadoVM 1.0.8

Improvements

• #565: New API call in the Execution Plan to log/trace the executed configuration plans.
• #563: Expand the TornadoVM profiler with Level Zero Sysman Energy Metrics.
• #559: Refactoring Power Metric handlers for PTX and OpenCL.
• #548: Benchmarking improvements.
• #549: Prebuilt API tests added using multiple backend-setup.
• Add internal tests for monitoring memory management link.

Compatibility

• #561: Build for OSx 14.6 and OSx 15 fixed.

Bug Fixes

• #564: Jenkins configuration fixed to run KFusion per backend.
• #562: Warmup action from the Execution Plan fixed to run with correct internal IDs.
• #557: Shared Execution Plans Context fixed.
• #553: OpenCL compiler flags for Intel Integrated GPUs fixed.
• #552: Fixed runtime to select any device among multiple SPIR-V devices.
• Fixed zero extend arithmetic operations: link.

Full Changelog

v1.0.7...v1.0.8

Docs

https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.8/

How to build

./bin/tornadovm-installer --jdk jdk21 --backend=opencl,spirv,ptx

TornadoVM 1.0.7

Improvements

• #468: Cleanup Abstract Metadata Class.
• #473: Add maven plugin to build TornadoVM source for the releases.
• #474: Refactor TornadoDevice to place common methods in the TornadoXPUInterface.
• #482: Help messages improved when an out-of-memory exception is raised.
• #484: Double-type for the trigonometric functions added in the TornadoMath class.
• #487: Prebuilt API simplified.
• #494: Add test to trigger unsupported features related to direct use of Memory Segments.
• #509: Add a quick pass configuration to skip the heavy tests during active development.
• #532: Improve thread scheduler to support RISC-V Accelerators from Codeplay.
• #533: Support for scalar values to be passed via lambda expressions as tasks.
• #538: README file updated.
• #539: Refactor core classes and add new API methods to pass compilation flags to the low-level driver compilers (OpenCL, PTX and Level Zero).
• #542: Tagged LevelZero JNI and Beehive Toolkit dependencies added in the build and installer.

Compatibility

• #465: Support for JDK 22 and GraalVM 24.0.2.
• #486: Temurin for Windows added in the list of supported JDKs.
• #525: Revert usage of String Templates in preparation for JDK 23.
• #527: SPIR-V version parameter added. TornadoVM may run previous SPIR-V versions (e.g., ComputeAorta from Codeplay).
• #513: LevelZero JNI Library updated to v0.1.4.

Bug Fixes

• #470: README documentation fixed.
• #478: Fix the test names that are present in the white list.
• #488: FP64 Kind for radian operations and the PTX backend fixed.
• #493: Tests Whitelist for PTX backend fixed.
• #502: Fix barrier type in the documentation regarding programmability of reductions.
• #514: Installer script fixed.
• #540: Fix issue with clean-up execution IDs function.
• #541: Fix Data Accessors for the prebuilt API.
• #543: Fix checkstyle condition and FP16 error message improved.

Full Changelog

v1.0.6...v1.0.7

Docs

https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.7/

How to build

./bin/tornadovm-installer --jdk jdk21 --backend=opencl,spirv,ptx

TornadoVM 1.0.6

Improvements

• #442: Support for multiple SPIR-V device versions (>= 1.2).
• #444: Enabling automatic device memory clean-up after each run from the execution plan.
• #448: API extension to query device memory consumption at the TaskGraph granularity.
• #451: Option to select the default SPIR-V runtime.
• #455: Refactoring the API and documentation updated.
• #460: Refactoring all examples to use try-with-resources execution plans by default.
• #462: Support for copy array references from private to private memory on the hardware accelerator.

Compatibility

• #438: No writes for intermediate files to avoid permissions issues with Jenkins.
• #440: Update Jenkinsfile for CI/CD testing.
• #443: Level Zero and OpenCL runtimes for SPIR-V included in the Jenkins CI/CD.
• #450: TornadoVM benchmark script improved to report dimensions and sizes.
• #453: Update Jenkinsfile with regards to the runtime for SPIR-V.

Bug Fixes

• #434: Fix for building TornadoVM on OSx after integration with SPIR-V binaries for OpenCL.
• #441: Fix PTX unit-tests.
• #446: Fix NVIDIA thread-block scheduler for new GPU drivers.
• #447: Fix recompilation when batch processing is not triggered.
• #463: Fix unit-tests for CPU virtual devices.

Full Changelog

v1.0.5...v1.0.6

Docs

https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.6/

How to build

./bin/tornadovm-installer --jdk jdk21 --backend=opencl,spirv,ptx

TornadoVM 1.0.5

Improvements

• #402: Support for TornadoNativeArrays from FFI buffers.
• #403: Clean-up and refactoring for the code analysis of the loop-interchange.
• #405: Disable Loop-Interchange for CPU offloading..
• #407: Debugging OpenCL Kernels builds improved.
• #410: CPU block scheduler disabled by default and option to switch between different thread-schedulers added.
• #418: TornadoOptions and TornadoLogger improved.
• #423: MxM using ns instead of ms to report performance.
• #425: Vector types for Float<Width> and Int<Width> supported.
• #429: Documentation of the installation process updated and improved.
• #432: Support for SPIR-V code generation and dispatcher using the TornadoVM OpenCL runtime.

Compatibility

• #409: Guidelines to build the documentation.
• #411: Windows installer improved.
• #412: Python installer improved to check download all Python dependencies before the main installer.
• #413: Improved documentation for installing all configurations of backends and OS.
• #424: Use Generic GPU Scheduler for some older NVIDIA Drivers for the OpenCL runtime.
• #430: Improved the installer by checking that the TornadoVM environment is loaded upfront.

Bug Fixes

• #400: Fix batch computation when the global thread indexes are used to compute the outputs.
• #414: Recover Test-Field unit-tests using Panama types.
• #415: Check style errors fixed.
• #416: FPGA execution with multiple tasks in a task-graph fixed.
• #417: Lazy-copy out fixed for Java fields.
• #420: Fix Mandelbrot example.
• #421: OpenCL 2D thread-scheduler fixed for NVIDIA GPUs.
• #422: Compilation for NVIDIA Jetson Nano fixed.
• #426: Fix Logger for all backends.
• #428: Math cos/sin operations supported for vector types.
• #431: Jenkins files fixed.

Docs

https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.5/

TornadoVM v1.0.4

Improvements

#369 : Introduction of Tensor types in TornadoVM API and interoperability with ONNX Runtime.
#370 : Array concatenation operation for TornadoVM native arrays.
#371 : TornadoVM installer script ported for Windows 10/11.
#372 : Add support for HalfFloat (Float16) in vector types.
#374 : Support for TornadoVM array concatenations from the constructor-level.
#375 : Support for TornadoVM native arrays using slices from the Panama API.
#376 : Support for lazy copy-outs in the batch processing mode.
#377 : Expand the TornadoVM profiler with power metrics for NVIDIA GPUs (OpenCL and PTX backends).
#384 : Auto-closable Execution Plans for automatic memory management.

Compatibility

#386 : OpenJDK 17 support removed.
#390 : SapMachine OpenJDK 21 supported.
#395 : OpenJDK 22 and GraalVM 22.0.1 supported.

• TornadoVM successfully tested on Apple M3 chips.

Bug Fixes

#367 : Fix for Graal/Truffle languages in which some Java modules were not visible.
#373 : Fix for data copies of the HalfFloat types for all backends.
#378 : Fix free memory markers when running multi-thread execution plans.
#379 : Refactoring package of vector api unit-tests.
#380 : Fix event list sizes to accommodate profiling of large applications.
#385 : Fix code check style.
#387 : Fix TornadoVM internal events in OpenCL, SPIR-V and PTX for running multi-threaded execution plans.
#388 : Fix of expected and actual values of tests.
#392 : Fix installer for using existing JDKs.
#389 : Fix DataObjectState for multi-thread execution plans.
#396 : Fix JNI code for the CUDA NVML library access with OpenCL.

Docs

https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.4/

Installation

./bin/tornadovm-installer --listJDKs

    TornadoVM Installer - Select a JDK implementation to install with TornadoVM:

    jdk21             : Install TornadoVM with OpenJDK 21 (Oracle OpenJDK)
    graal-jdk-21      : Install TornadoVM with GraalVM and JDK 21 (GraalVM 23.1.0)
    mandrel-jdk-21    : Install TornadoVM with Mandrel and JDK 21 (GraalVM 23.1.0)
    corretto-jdk-21   : Install TornadoVM with Corretto JDK 21
    microsoft-jdk-21  : Install TornadoVM with Microsoft JDK 21
    zulu-jdk-21       : Install TornadoVM with Azul Zulu JDK 21
    temurin-jdk-21    : Install TornadoVM with Eclipse Temurin JDK 21
    sapmachine-jdk-21 : Install TornadoVM with SapMachine OpenJDK 21

    Usage:
      $ ./bin/tornadovm-installer  --jdk <JDK_VERSION> --backend <BACKEND>

    Example:
       $ ./bin/tornadovm-installer  --jdk jdk21 --backend=spirv,opencl

    If you want to select another version of OpenJDK, you can use --javaHome <pathToJavaHome> and install as follows:
      $ ./bin/tornadovm-installer --backend <BACKEND> --javaHome <pathToJavaHome>

TornadoVM 1.0.3

27/03/2024

Improvements

• #344 : Support for Multi-threaded Execution Plans.
• #347 : Enhanced examples.
• #350 : Obtain internal memory segment for the Tornado Native Arrays without the object header.
• #357 : API extensions to query and apply filters to backends and devices from the TornadoExecutionPlan.
• #359 : Support Factory Methods for FFI-based array collections to be used/composed in TornadoVM Task-Graphs.

Compatibility

• #351 : Compatibility of TornadoVM Native Arrays with the Java Vector API.
• #352 : Refactor memory limit to take into account primitive types and wrappers.
• #354 : Add DFT-sample benchmark in FP32.
• #356 : Initial support for Windows 11 using Visual Studio Development tools.
• #361 : Compatibility with the SPIR-V toolkit v0.0.4.
• #363 : Level Zero JNI Dependency updated to 0.1.3.

Bug Fixes

• #346 : Computation of local-work group sizes for the Level Zero/SPIR-V backend fixed.
• #360 : Fix native tests to check the JIT compiler for each backend.
• #355 : Fix custom exceptions when a driver/device is not found.

Documentation

https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.3/

TornadoVM v1.0.2

29/02/2024

Improvements

• #323 : Set Accelerator Memory Limit per Execution Plan at the API level
• #328 : Javadoc API to run with concurrent devices and memory limits
• #340 : New API calls to enable threadInfo and printKernel from the Execution Plan API.
• #334 : Dynamically enable/disable profiler after first run

Compatibility

• #337 : Initial support for Graal and JDK 21.0.2

Bug Fixes

• #322 : Fix duplicate thread-info debug message when the debug option is also enabled.
• #325 : Set/Get accesses for the MatrixVectorFloat4 type fixed
• #326 : Fix installation script for running with Python >= 3.12
• #327 : Fix Memory Limits for all supported Panama off-heap types.
• #329 : Fix timers for the dynamic reconfiguration policies
• #330 : Fix the profiler logs when silent mode is enabled
• #332 : Fix Batch processing when having multiple task-graphs in a single execution plan.

Documentation

https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.2/

TornadoVM v1.0.1

30/01/2024

Improvements

#305: Under-demand data transfer for custom data ranges.
#313: Initial support for Half-Precision (FP16) data types.
#315: Math Ceil function added.
#311: Enable Multi-Task Multiple Device (MTMD) model from the TornadoExecutionPlan API.

Compatibility/Integration

#294: Separation of the OpenCL Headers from the code base.
#297: Separation of the LevelZero JNI API in a separate repository.
#301: Temurin configuration supported.
#304: Refactor of the common phases for the JIT compiler.
#316: Beehive SPIR-V Toolkit version updated.

Bug Fixes

#298: OpenCL Codegen fixed open-close brackets.
#300: Python Dependencies fixed for AWS.
#308: Runtime checks for Grid-Scheduler names.
#309: Fix check-style to support STR templates.
#314: emit Vector16 Capability for 16-width vectors.

Documentation

https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0.1/

TornadoVM v1.0

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.

Docs

https://tornadovm.readthedocs.io/en/v1.0/