Vortex is a groundbreaking open-source project supporting GPGPU with RISC-V ISA extensions, currently compatible with OpenCL and running on FPGA. The platform is highly customizable and scalable, featuring a complete open-source compiler, driver, and runtime software stack for GPU architecture research. Recent publications by authors Blaise Tine, Varun Saxena, and others showcase the potential of open-source hardware and software in graphic rendering on programmable RISC-V GPUs. The work delves into implementing hardware extensions for multicore RISC-V GPUs, hinting at the vast possibilities for innovation in this space.
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