For years we have had a good collaboration with the Khronos group, mainly due our community presence. Now it was time to get into a closer collaboration and become an official Contributor Member (logo not there yet). This effectively means two things: Instead of complaining on the blog and on twitter, we can now discuss it within

There has been quite some “find OpenCL” code for CMake around. If you haven’t heard of CMake, it’s the most useful cross-platform tool to make cross-platform software. Put this into CMakeLists.txt, changing the names for the executable. #Minimal OpenCL CMakeLists.txt by StreamHPC cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.1) project(GreatProject) # Handle OpenCL find_package(OpenCL REQUIRED) include_directories(${OpenCL_INCLUDE_DIRS}) link_directories(${OpenCL_LIBRARY}) add_executable (main main.cpp)

Approximation computing is allowing larger errors when performing calculations.  While most programmers might go the other way (lower error rate) by using doubles for instance, this field is interesting for quite some of us. The reason is that you can get more performance, more bandwidth space and lower power usage in return. In Neural Networks high precision

There are many research papers that claim enormous speed-ups using an accelerator. From our experience a large part is because of code-modernisations (parallisation & optimisation), which makes the claim look false. That’s why we offer peer-reviews for half our rate for CUDA and OpenCL software. The final costs depend on the size and complexity of the code.

Most systems nowadays have more than just one OpenCL device and often from different vendors. How can they all coexist from a programming standpoint? How do they interact? OpenCL platforms and OpenCL devices Firstly, please bear with me for a few words about OpenCL devices and OpenCL platforms. An OpenCL platform usually corresponds to a

At StreamHPC we mostly work for companies in the bigger countries of Europe and North America. We hardly work for companies in the Netherlands. But it seems that after 5 years of sleeping, there is some shaking. Below is a (translated) article with the above quote by Prof. Dr. Ir. Henri Bal, professor at the Computer section

Several Chinese phones bring OpenCL to millions of users, as MediaTek offers their drivers to all phone vendors who use their (recent) chipsets. Mediatek said that you just need a phone with one of the below chipsets and you can run your OpenCL-app, as they provide the driver-stack with the hardware to their customers. I’ve added

The green500 is out and one unknown processor takes the number one position with a huge improvement over last year. It is a new super-computer installed at RIKEN with an incredible 7 GFLOPS/Watt. It is powered by the processor-boards at the right: two Xeons, 4 PEZY-SC 1.4 accelerators and 128GB DRAM, which have a combined performance

Intel has assumed a lot if it comes to XeonPhi’s. One was that you will use it on dual-Xeon servers or workstations and that you already have a professional supplier of motherboards and other computer-parts. We can only guess why they’re not supporting non-professional enthusiasts who got the cheap XeonPhi. After browsing half the internet to

Date: 17 September 2015, 17:00 Location: Naritaweg 12B, Amsterdam Costs: free Selecting the right hardware for your OpenCL-powerd product is very important. We therefore organise a three hour open house where we you can test, benchmark and discuss many available chipsets that support OpenCL. For each showcased board you can read and hear about the