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