List of OpenCL applications

The following list contains a list of computer programs that are built to take advantage of the OpenCL or WebCL heterogeneous compute framework.

Graphics

• ACDSee[1]
• Adobe Photoshop[2][3][4]
• Affinity Photo
• Capture One[5]
• Blurate[6]
• darktable[7][8][9][10]
• FAST: imaging Medical[11][12]
• GIMP[13][14][15][16]
• HALCON by MVTec[17]
• Helicon Focus[18]
• ImageMagick[19][20]
• Musemage[21]
• Pathfinder,[22][23] GPU-based font rasterizer
• PhotoScan[24][25]
• seedimg[26]

CAD and 3D modelling

• Autodesk Maya[27]
• Blender[28] GPU rendering with NVIDIA CUDA and OptiX & AMD OpenCL[29]
• Houdini[30]
• LuxRender[31][32]
• Mandelbulber[33]

Audio, video, and multimedia

• AlchemistXF[34]
• CUETools[35][36]
• DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic Design[28]
• FFmpeg[37][38] has a number of OpenCL filters [39]
• gr-fosphor[40] GNU Radio block for RTSA-like spectrum visualization
• HandBrake[41][42]
• Final Cut Pro X[43]
• KNLMeansCL: Denoise plugin for AviSynth[44]
• Libav[45]
• OpenCV[46]
• RealFlow Hybrido2[28]
• Sony Catalyst[28]
• Vegas Pro by Magix Software GmbH[28]
• vReveal by MotionDSP[47]
• Total Media Theatre by ArcSoft[48][49]
• x264[50][51]
• x265 [52]
• h.265/HEVC possible [53]

Web (including WebCL)

• Google Chrome (experimental)[54]
• Mozilla Firefox (experimental)[55]

Office

• Collabora Online[56][57]
• LibreOffice Calc[58][59][60]

Games

• Military Operations,[61] operational level real-time strategy game where the complete army is simulated in real-time using OpenCL
• Planet Explorers[62][63] is using OpenCL to calculate the voxels.
• BeamNG.drive[64] is going to use OpenCL for the physics engine.
• Leela Zero,[65] open source replication of Alpha Go Zero using OpenCL for neural network computation.

Scientific computing

• Advanced Simulation Library (ASL)[66]
• AMD Compute Libraries[67]
  • clBLAS,[68] complete set of BLAS level 1, 2 & 3 routines
  • clSPARSE,[69] routines for sparse matrices
  • clFFT,[70] FFT routines
  • clRNG,[71] random numbers generators MRG31k3p, MRG32k3a, LFSR113, and Philox-4×32-10
• ArrayFire: parallel computing with an easy-to-use API with JIT compiler (open source),[72][73]
• BEAGLE,[74][75] Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood phylogenetics library
• BigDFT[76]
• BOINC[77]
• Bolt,[78] STL-compatible library for creating accelerated data parallel applications
• Bullet[79][80]
• CLBlast: tuned clBlas[81]
• clMAGMA,[82][83] OpenCL port of the MAGMA project,[84] a linear algebra library similar to LAPACK
• CP2K: molecular simulations[85]
• GROMACS: chemical simulations,[86][87][88] deprecated OpenCL with Version 2021 with change to SYCL
• HiFlow3: Open source finite elements CFD[89][90]
• HIP,[91] CUDA-to-portable C++ compiler
• LAMMPS[92]
• MDT (Microstructure Diffusion Toolbox): MRI analysis in Python and OpenCL[93]
• MOT (Multi-threaded Optimization Toolbox): OpenCL accelerated non-linear optimization and MCMC sampling[94]
• OCCA
• Octopus[95]
• OpenMM: Part of Omnia Suite, biomolecular simulations[96][97]
• PARALUTION[98]
• pyFAI,[99] Fast Azimuthal Integration in Python
• Random123,[100] library of counter-based random number generators
• SecondSpace,[101] simulation software for waves in 2D space
• StarPU,[102] task programming library
• Theano: Python array library[103][104]
• UFO,[105][106] data processing framework
• VexCL,[107][108] vector expression template library
• ViennaCL[109] and PyViennaCL,[110] linear algebra library developed at TU Wien

Cryptography

• BFGMiner,[111][112]
• Hashcat,[113] password recovery tool
• John the Ripper,[114]
• Scallion,[115] GPU-based Onion hash generator
• Pyrit,[116] WPA key recovery software

Language bindings

• ClojureCL: parallel OpenCL 2.0 with Clojure[117]
• dcompute: native Execution of D[118]
• Erlang OpenCL binding[119]
• OpenCLAda: Binding Ada to OpenCL[120]
• OpenCL.jl: Julia bindings[121]
• PyOpenCL,[122] Python interface to OpenCL API
• Project Coriander: Conversion CUDA to OpenCL 1.2 with CUDA-on-CL[123][124]
• Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) contains low-lag Java bindings for OpenCL

Miscellaneous

• clinfo
• clpeak,[125] peak device capability profiler
• OCLToys,[126][127] collection of OpenCL examples
• opencl-stream,[128] OpenCL implementation of the STREAM[129] benchmark
• SNU NPB,[130] benchmark
• mixbench,[131] benchmark tool for evaluating GPUs on mixed operational intensity kernels

See also

• List of OpenGL programs

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