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Qualcomm Announces Mesa VCL Driver For OpenCL Acceleration Within VMs

Qualcomm engineers have developed VCL as a new open-source OpenCL driver for use with VirtIO-GPU for providing OpenCL hardware acceleration within virtual machines.

Qualcomm engineers have developed VCL as a new open-source OpenCL driver for use with VirtIO-GPU for providing OpenCL hardware acceleration within virtual machines. VCL is a new Mesa driver for providing OpenCL support within guest VMs that is ultimately accelerated by the host system's driver and underlying GPU hardware. VCL is to OpenCL as Virgl is to OpenGL and Venis is to Vulkan for guest VM graphics acceleration.

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