Vulkan compute without a renderer

[eliyam32]

Hello,
Im intrested to add Vulkan support to an embedded device.
It seems that Vulkan compute shaders are optionally an alternative to openCL.

Vulkan has 2 parts : compute , rendering.
is it possible to support Vulkan compute without the rendering part ?
are those parts easily separable ?

Thanks,
Eliya

[SaschaWillems]

Yes, that's perfectly possible and usually called "headless". Rasterization, presentation and compute are separated in such a way that you can use them without any of the other. Our samples don't support this right now, but you can take a look at my headless compute example that uses only Vulkan's compute part.