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For your convenience: an overview of all ARM-GPUs and their driver-availability. Please let me know if something is missing. I’ve added a rating, to friendly push the vendors to get to at least an 7. Vendors can contact me, if they think the rating does not reflect reality. ZiiLabs SDK-page@StreamHPC Drivers can be delivered by

Update: we are very sorry to tell that due to a deadline in a project we were forced to cancel Vincent’s talk. StreamHPC will be at Mosaic3DX in Cambridge, UK, on 30+31 October. The brand new conference managed to get big names on-board, I’m happy to be amongst. Mosaic3DX describes itself as: an international event

This post is part of the series Programming Theories, in which we discuss new and old ways of programming. When discussing the design of programming languages or the extension of existing ones, the question What concepts can simplify the tasks of the programmer? always triggers lots of interesting debates. After that, when an effective solution is

AMD has just released an update to their AMD programming guide. Download the guide (PDF) August version Download the guide (PDF) November version Download TOC (PDF) For more optimisation guides, see the tutorials page of the knowledge base. Table of Contents Chapter 1 OpenCL Architecture and AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing 1.1 Software Overview 1.1.1 Synchronization

UPDATED in February 2017 Some optimisation tricks work really well on one architecture, and are useless on others. And even with better drivers, the older architectures need some help. In other words, it helps to know what architecture the GPU has. Therefore you get some help from your friends at StreamHPC. Below you’ll find a

Important: this is only for Google-branded Nexus phones – other brands are free to do what they want, and they most-probably will. Also important: this doesn’t mean that OpenCL on Android devices will be over, but that there is a bump in the road now Google tries to lock-in customers to their own APIs. The

Edit: the project unfortunately did not get enough funding on Indiegogo Launching a book takes a lot of effort. By using crowd funding, we hope to get the book be published much earlier and for a lower price. [button text=”Pre-order via Indiegogo – only in August 2013″ url=”http://igg.me/at/opencl20manual” color=”orange” target=”_blank”] What you’ll get You will

Update August’13: 0.8 has been released PoCL stands for Portable Portable Computing Language and the goal is to make a full and open source implementation of OpenCL 1.2 for LLVM. This is about installing and using PoCL on Ubuntu 64. If you want to put some effort to build it on Windows, you will certainly help the

If the information on the Geforce-website (an official NVIDIA-website) is correct, then the GT 700M series supports OpenCL 1.2. There were no references of OpenCL 1.2 functions in any driver. If you have more info, let us know in the comments. Thanks to Rahul Garg for the tip.