In the world of GPGPU we have currently 4 players: Khronos OpenCL, NVIDIA CUDA, Microsoft DirectCompute and PathScale ENZO. If you are researching DirectCompute vs CUDA, you probably know CUDA and OpenCL already (or start reading more articles from this blog)….
OpenCL Fireworks
I like and appreciate differences in the many cultures on our Earth, but also like to recognise different very old traditions everywhere to feel a sort of ancient bond. As an European citizen I’m quite familiar with the replacement of the…
OpenCL Potentials: Medical Imaging
When you ever saw a CT or MRI scanner, you might have noticed the full-sized computer next to it (especially the older ones). There is quite some processing power needed to keep up with the data-stream coming from the scanner, to…
OpenCL on the CPU: AVX and SSE
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…