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
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People who follow me, know my interest in ARM Cortex CPU & Mali GPU and Imagination Technology’s PowerVR, regarding OpenCL-potential. Here is an overview of what I found out until now and has more open ends than answers. I was very hopeful about access to mobile OpenCL for developers… But now I think it will
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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
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(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
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