VR World » khronos group http://www.vrworld.com Fri, 10 Apr 2015 07:54:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 GPGPU is the future: Khronos releases OpenCL API http://www.vrworld.com/2008/12/09/gpgpu-is-the-future-khronos-releases-opencl-api/ http://www.vrworld.com/2008/12/09/gpgpu-is-the-future-khronos-releases-opencl-api/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:05:34 +0000 http://theovalich.wordpress.com/?p=751 With Khronos group officially launching the OpenCL 1.0 specification, GPGPU computing is now officially covered with a open-source, royalty-free cross-platform API that enables parallel programming on the GPUs, regardless from whom they're coming from.

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]]> First day of inaugural Siggraph Asia 2008 conference came with a bang. Few months after announcing the work on the spec, Khronos group came up with the OpenCL 1.0 specification. GPGPU is now officially covered with a open-source, royalty-free cross-platform API that enables parallel programming on the GPUs, regardless from whom they’re coming from.

This specification covers all GPGPU-capable hardware, regardless of that hardware being in servers, workstations, desktops, notebooks or handhelds – if your GPU is able to compute, the manufacturer only needs to adopt OpenCL support in the driver and that’s that.

That should not be an issue, with AMD/ATI and Nvidia strongly standing behind the standard. Computing engineers on both sides bickered about Brooke+, CAL or CUDA in the past, but both makers are firmly behind OpenCL as the way for the future.

So far, companies that developed and ratified this initial spec include 3Dlabs, Activision Blizzard, AMD, Apple, ARM, BARCO, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, HI, IBM, Intel Corporation, Imagination Technologies, Kestrel Institute, Motorola, Movidia, Nokia, NVIDIA, QNX, RapidMind, Samsung, Seaweed, TAKUMI, Texas Instruments and Umea University.

You can learn more at the official page of OpenCL API, but I wasn’t able to check the site as it was hammered down with numerous requests (this story was written at 10:05AM CET).

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]]> http://www.vrworld.com/2008/12/09/gpgpu-is-the-future-khronos-releases-opencl-api/feed/ 5 GPGPU Revolution: OpenCL to launch next week http://www.vrworld.com/2008/11/14/gpgpu-revolution-opencl-to-launch-next-week/ http://www.vrworld.com/2008/11/14/gpgpu-revolution-opencl-to-launch-next-week/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:25 +0000 http://theovalich.wordpress.com/?p=403 If you’re wondering what is next week’s outlook for tech news, brace yourselves for impact. During the past three weeks, I was briefed by several ...

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]]> If you’re wondering what is next week’s outlook for tech news, brace yourselves for impact. During the past three weeks, I was briefed by several companies and everybody is gearing up for SC08 (SuperComputing) conference in Austin, Texas.
khronosgroup_sc08There will be a lot of announcements coming from AMD, Nvidia and Intel, but more importantly, Khronos group will show OpenCL (Open Computing Language) to the general audience. Many people view OpenCL as an API that will make the very same impact on consumer and professional applications that DirectX made in the world of games.
If you’re in Austin, you can head over to Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant between 5:30 and 6:30PM, but please do register first. You can register by clicking on this link.

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