All technical blog posts written by people of the Stream HPC team.
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
nVidia’s CUDA vs OpenCL Marketing Read More »
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
OpenCL – the battle, part II Read More »
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
SUN jumping on the OpenCL-train? Read More »
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
OpenCL – the battle, part I Read More »
Building Something Different: Our First Steps The foundation has been laid. After careful planning and preparation, we’ve taken the first concrete steps toward building this company and the direction is clear. We exist to serve customers in highly specialized fields where mathematics and metrics aren’t just useful, they’re essential. While most software companies chase the