This post has a focus towards programmers. The main question “should I invest in learning CUDA/OpenCL?” Using the video-processor for parallel processing is actually possible since beginning 2006; you just had to know how to use the OpenGL Shader Language. Not long after that (end 2006) CUDA was introduced. A lot has happened after that,
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(If you’re searching for companies who offer OpenCL-products and services, please visit OpenCL:Pro) You probably have heard AMD is on the OpenCL working group of Khronos; but there are many more and they possibly all have plans to use it. Here is an overview, so you can make your own conclusions about the future that
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Please read this article about Microsoft and OpenCL, before reading on. The people of Unigine did the requested benchmarking, and have some results on differences between the three big GPGPU-APIs. See their part I, part II and part III with some typical results. The following read is not about the technical differences of the 3
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Part II: the software-companies It is very clear what’s at stake for the hardware-companies; we’ve also discussed the operating systems. But what should the software companies do? For companies which make i.e. encoding-software or databases it is very simple: support OpenCL or be years behind (what marketing can’t fix). For most other software there is
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Edit (27 May 2010): until now Oracle/SUN has not shown anything that would validate this rumour, and the job-posting is not there anymore. Follow us on Twitter to be the first to know if Oracle/SUN will have better support for GPGPU for Solaris and/or Java and/or its hardware. — Job Description: The Power to change your
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Part I: the Hardware-companies and Operating Systems (Part II will be about programming languages and software-companies, part III about the gaming-industry) OpenCL is the new, but already de-facto standard of stream-computing; but how it got there so fast is somewhat strange. A few years ago there were many companies and research-groups seeing the power of
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