Typos are a programmers worst nightmare, as they are bad for concentration. The code in your head is not the same as the code on the screen and therefore doesn’t have much to do with the actual problem solving. Code highlighting…
Kernels and the GPL. Are we safe and linking?
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and below is my humble opinion only. The post is for insights only, not for legal matters. GPL was always a protection that somebody or some company does not run away with your code and…
Basic Concepts: OpenCL Convenience Methods for Vector Elements and Type Conversions
In the series Basic Concepts I try to give an alternative description to what is said everywhere else. This time my eye fell on alternative convenience methods in two cases which were introduced there to be nice to devs with i.e. C/C++ and/or…
Installing both NVidia GTX and AMD Radeon on Linux for OpenCL
August 2012: article has been completely rewritten and updated. For driver-specific issues, please refer to this article. Want to have both your GTX and Radeon working as OpenCL-devices under Linux? The bad news is that attempts to get Radeon as a…
OpenCL Potentials: Investment-industry
This is the second in the series “OpenCL potentials“. I chose this industry because it is the finest example where you are always late, even if you were first. So it always must be faster if you want to make the…
AMD OpenCL coding competition
The AMD OpenCL coding competition seems to be Windows 7 64bit only. So if you are on another version of Windows, OSX or (like me) on Linux, you are left behind. Of course StreamHPC supports software that just works anywhere (seriously, how…