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
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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
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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
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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
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Altera has been very busy adding resources and has kicked off the beginning of June with opening up their OpenCL-program for the general public. Only Stratix V devices are supported, but that could change later. Below are all pages and PDFs concerning OpenCL I’ve found while searching Altera’s website. Evaluation of CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs
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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.
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Update September ’13: AMD gets their new GPUs “Volcanic Islands” with GCN 2.0 out in October. For this reason the HD 7970’s price has dropped to €250. This shakes up some of the things described in this article. Update June ’14: It has become clear that Titan is not a consumer device and should be
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Better now than never. It has almost been a year, but finally they’re online: the sheets of the GPGPU-day Amsterdam 2012. You can find the sheets at http://www.platformparallel.com/nl/gpgpu-day-2012/abstracts/ – don’t hotlink the files, but link to this page. The abstracts should introduce the sheets, but if you need more info just ask them in the
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See the widget at the right showing if your browser+computer supports WebCL? It is available under the GPL 2.0 license and based on code from WebCL@NokiaResearch (thanks guys for your great Firefox-plugin!) Download from WordPress.org and unzip in /wp-content/plugins/. Or (better), search for a new plugin: “WebCL”. Feedback can be given in the comments. I’d
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Which algorithms map is best to which accelerator? In other words: What kind of algorithms are faster when using accelerators and OpenCL/CUDA? Professor Wu Feng and his group from VirginiaTech took a close look at which types of algorithms were a good fit for vector-processors. This resulted in a document: “The 13 (computational) dwarves of
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