When AMD came out with CPU-support I was the last one who was enthusiastic about it, comparing it as feeding chicken-food to oxen. Now CUDA has CPU-support too, so what was I missing? This article is a quick overview on OpenCL on CPU-extensions, but expect more to come when the Hybrid X86-Processors actually hit the
OpenCL on the CPU: AVX and SSE Read More »
There is one big reason StreamHPC chose OpenCL, and that is (future) hardware-support. I talked about NVIDIA versus AMD a lot, but I did that knowing others would join soon. AMD is correct when they say the future is fusion: “hybrid computing with a single chip holding both CPU- and GPU-cores, sharing the same memory
New grown-ups on the block Read More »
The first two parts described how hardware-companies and operating systems, programming languages and software-companies do or do not use OpenCL, written about half a year ago. Now we focus on what has driven NVIDIA and ATI/AMD for decades: games. Disclaimer: this is an opinion-piece on the current market. We are strong supporters of OpenCL and
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The System-on-a-chip (SoC) for X86 will be a revolution for GPGPU. Why? Because currently a big problem is transferring data from CPU-memory to GPU-memory and back, which will be solved with SoCs. Below you can read this architecture-target is very possible. With AMD+ATI, Intel and its future high-end GPUs, and NVidia with the rumours around
X86 Systems-on-a-Chip and GPGPU Read More »
(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
All the members of the OpenCL working group 2010 Read More »