SIGGRAPH has only just begun, but the Khronos Group is already giving folks of the graphics programming persuasion some fresh APIs to talk about. Yesterday marked the release of the OpenCL 2.0 ...

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe explains how OpenCL may make FPGAs an attractive option. In January 2015, FPGAs took a step closer to the mainstream of ...

A new version of the interface makes software running on graphics chips more self-reliant and better at sharing data with conventional software running on CPUs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

OpenCL specification, an open industry standard for 3D graphics and computer audio that started as an Apple proposal but has gained many supporters, has been ratified. Brooke Crothers writes about ...

AMD has announced the release of the first OpenCL SDK for x86 CPUs, and it will enable developers to target x86 processors with the kind of OpenCL code that's normally written for GPUs. In a way, this ...

Don’t let your gaming card loaf around anymore. Free benchmark Luxmark can give it an OpenCL education, complete with a final grade. As graphics cards have grown more complex and powerful over the ...

The Khronos Group has ratified OpenCL 1.1, a programming standard for parallel execution of tasks across multicore processors, the standards-setting organization said on Monday. The OpenCL standard, ...

New OpenCL extensions expand functionality for key use cases, including a robust platform for heterogeneous parallel computation in a web browser November 30th, 2012 – Singapore, SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 ...

The initial era of programmable technologies contained two different extremes of programmability. One extreme was the single-core CPU and DSP units. These were programmable using software consisting ...

The Khronos Group, the organization responsible for maintaining a number of open standards such as OpenGL, WebGL, and OpenMAX, has announced the release of OpenCL 1.1, an update to the cross-platform ...

Though the “techlectic” SC08 crowd at Austin’s Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant Monday night was thirsty for cold beer and hungry for nachos and quesadillas, they were equally famished for information on ...

Apple has reportedly set an industry record by moving its OpenCL parallel computing standard from its beginnings to imminent approval in half a year, paving the way for its inclusion in Mac OS X Snow ...