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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Graphics

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

CAD and 3D modelling

• Houdini_(software)[23]

• Autodesk Maya[24]
• Blender[25]
• LuxRender[26][27]
• Mandelbulber[28]

Audio, video, and multimedia

• AlchemistXF[29]
• CUETools[30][31]
• FFmpeg[32][33]
• gr-fosphor[34] GNU Radio block for RTSA-like spectrum visualization
• HandBrake[35][36]
• Final Cut Pro X[37]
• KNLMeansCL: Denoise Plugin for AVISynth[38]
• Libav[39]
• OpenCV[40]
• RealFlow Hybrido2[25]
• Sony Catalyst[25]
• Vegas Pro by Magix Software GmbH[25]
• DaVinci Resolve by Blackmagic Design[25]
• vReveal by MotionDSP[41]
• Total Media Theatre by ArcSoft[42][43]
• x264[44][45]

Web (including WebCL)

• Google Chrome (experimental)[46]
• Mozilla Firefox (experimental)[47]

Office

• LibreOffice Calc[48][49][50]

Games

• Military operations[51], operational level real-time strategy game where the complete army is simulated in real-time using OpenCL
• Planet Explorers[52][53] is using OpenCL to calculate the voxels.
• BeamNG.drive[54] is going to use OpenCL for the physics engine.
• Leela Zero[55], open source replication of Alpha Go Zero using OpenCL for neural network computation.

Scientific computing

• Advanced Simulation Library[56]
• AMD Compute Libraries[57]
  • clBLAS,[58] complete set of BLAS level 1, 2 & 3 routines
  • clSPARSE,[59] routines for sparse matrices
  • clFFT,[60] FFT routines
  • clRNG,[61] 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),[62][63]
• BEAGLE,[64][65] Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood phylogenetics library
• BigDFT[66]
• BOINC[67]
• Bolt,[68] STL-compatible library for creating accelerated data parallel applications
• Bullet[69][70]
• CLBlast: tuned clBlas[71]
• clMAGMA,[72][73] OpenCL port of the MAGMA project,[74] a linear algebra library similar to LAPACK
• CP2K: molecular simulations[75]
• GROMACS: chemical simulations[76][77][78]
• HiFlow3: Open Source finite Elements CFD[79][80]
• HIP,[81] CUDA-to-portable C++ compiler
• LAMMPS[82]
• MDT (Microstructure Diffusion Toolbox): MRI analysis in Python and OpenCL[83]
• MOT (Multi-threaded Optimization Toolbox): OpenCL accelerated non-linear optimization and MCMC sampling[84]
• OCCA
• Octopus[85]
• OpenMM: Part of Omnia Suite, biomolecular simulations[86][87]
• PARALUTION[88]
• pyFAI,[89] Fast Azimuthal Integration in Python
• Random123,[90] library of counter-based random number generators
• SecondSpace,[91] simulation software for waves in 2D space
• StarPU,[92] task programming library
• Theano: Python Array Library[93][94]
• UFO,[95][96] data processing framework
• VexCL,[97][98] vector expression template library
• ViennaCL[99] and PyViennaCL,[100] linear algebra library developed at TU Wien

Cryptography

• BFGMiner,[101][102]
• Hashcat,[103] password recovery tool
• John the Ripper,[104]
• Scallion,[105] GPU-based Onion hash generator
• Pyrit,[106] WPA key recovery software

Language bindings

• ClojureCL: parallel OpenCL 2.0 with Clojure[107]
• dcompute: native Execution of D[108]
• Erlang OpenCL binding[109]
• OpenCLAda: Binding Ada to OpenCL[110]
• OpenCL.jl: Julia Bindings[111]
• PyOpenCL,[112] Python interface to OpenCL API
• Project Coriander: Conversion CUDA to OpenCL 1.2 with CUDA-on-CL[113][114]
• Lightweight_Java_Game_Library contains low-lag java bindings for OpenCL

Miscellaneous

• clinfo
• clpeak,[115] peak device capability profiler
• OCLToys,[116][117]

collection of OpenCL examples

• opencl-stream,[118] OpenCL implementation of the STREAM[119] benchmark
• SNU NPB,[120] benchmark
• mixbench,[121] benchmark tool for evaluating GPUs on mixed operational intensity kernels

See also

• List of OpenGL programs

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