Release v1.1.0-beta1

This new beta release includes bug fixes, a huge set of new features (e.g. LibDevice integration, CudaFFT and NVML bindings) and a significantly improved O2 optimization pipeline (get the ILGPU Nuget package and ILGPU Algorithms Nuget package).

Changes

• Added NVML bindings (#518).
• Added CuFFT and CuFFTW bindings (#706).
• Added NvJpeg image-decoding bindings (#716, #721).
• Added LibDevice bindings to include highly optimized math functions on NVIDIA GPUs (#707).
• Added FP16 support to CuBlas bindings (#658).
• Added new alignment methods to views to improve performance (#684).
• Added new global code scheduling transformation to O2 pipeline (#704, #734).
• Improved debug view implementations of all array views (#647).
• Improved automatic vectorization (#668).
• Improved performance of dead-code elimination (#702).
• Improved loop-invariant code motion transformation (#703).
• Improved on-the-fly optimization of SetField operations (#671).
• Improved on-the-fly optimization of LoadElementAddress operations (#733).
• Fixed missing binding of accelerator instances during Cuda memcopy operations (#705).
• Fixed exception handling in the case of missing assembly binding redirects (#730).
• Prevented unintentional initialization of the current Accelerator instance (#714).

Internal changes

• Require .NET6 for building and enable package validation (#729).
• Fixed warnings in NET6 builds (#710).
• Fixed missing struct constraint on TraversalSuccessorsProvider (#727).
• Added ILGPU logos to logo folder (#717).

Special thanks

Special thanks to @debiday, @jgiannuzzi, @MoFtZ and @Ruberik for their contributions to this release in form of code, feedback, ideas and proposals. Furthermore, we would like to thank the entire ILGPU community (especially @Joey9801, @kilngod, @mikhail-khalizev, @MPSQUARK, @NullandKale, @RER009 and @Yey007) for providing feedback, submitting issues and feature requests.