Edit: Aparapi has been open sourced and many issues have already been fixed and improved. If you have an AMD GPU/APU, you should try Aparapi. This software lets you write OpenCL-code in Java pretty high-level. The idea is that is sort of that…
Keep The Hardware Focus
If you buy a car, the first choice is not often the kind of fuel. You first select on the engine-properties, the looks, the interior, the brand and for sure the total cost of ownership. The costs can be a reason…
Exposing OpenCL on Android: Q&A with Tim Lewis of ZiiLabs
ZiiLabs has been offering an early access program for OpenCL SDK since last year. This program was very selective in choosing developers and little news has been put on their webpage. Now they are planning to make their Android NDK a…
Basic concept: Hosts and devices
Time for some basic concepts of OpenCL. As I notice a growing number of visitors to this page, I notices I have actually not written much about coding and basics. One of the first steps of an OpenCL program is selecting…
Qt Creator OpenCL Syntax Highlighting
With highlighting for Gedit, I was happy to give you the convenience of a nice editor to work on OpenCL-files. But it seems that one of the most popular IDEs for C++-programming is Qt Creator. So you receive another free syntax highlighter….
Install OpenCL on Debian, Ubuntu and Mint orderly
If you read different types of manuals how to compile OpenCL software on Linux, then you can get dizzy of all the LD-parameters. Also when installing the SDKs from AMD, Intel and NVIDIA, you get different locations for libraries, header-files, etc….
OpenCL vs CUDA Misconceptions
Translation available: Russian/Русский. (Let us know if you have translated this article too… And thank you!) Last year I explained the main differences between CUDA and OpenCL. Now I want to get some old (and partly) false stories around CUDA-vs-OpenCL out of…
Intel’s OpenCL SDK examples for GCC
Update august 2012: There is a new post for the latest Linux examples. Note: these patches won’t work anymore! You can learn from the patches how to fix the latest SDK-code for GCC and Linux/OSX. Code-examples are not bundled with the…
InsideHPC: SuperComputing. Where to from here?
In this video, Moderator Bob Feldman hosts a session entitled: Supercomputing: Where to from Here? Recorded at the National HPCC Conference 2011 in Newport. Panelists: Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI Bill Feiereisen, Intel Shumel Shottan, BlueARC Steve Lyness, Appro International, Inc….
28 June: OpenCL course in Utrecht, NL
At 28 June 2011 StreamCompting will give a 1-day course on OpenCL in Utrecht. As it is quite new, the priced is reduced. Also if you want to learn CUDA or any other GPGPU-language, this course is also a good option…
MS just did not port Windows 8 to ARM
With a lot of fanfare Microsoft said they would offer Windows 8 in both an X86 as an ARM version. I was happy to see that Microsoft was innovating again after 10 years, and even saw loads of advantages of their…
AMD OpenCL Presentation as OpenDocument
You remember AMD’s OpenCL University Kit? It was for universities and completely written in PPTX. (For people who are on university: PPTX is a undocumented document-form which claims to be open and actually works well with an editor/viewer of only one…
StreamHPC’s Newsletter
Wanting to know what really happens in the world of OpenCL? StreamHPC’s monthly newsletter is the most complete and independent source around the business and techniques around OpenCL. Subscribe, because the written news doesn’t always end up on this blog. StreamHPC…
WebCL – a next step
WebGL is already secured to be a success; only IE-users will not have the 3D-web without plugin. But once sites like Wikipedia starts to offer 3D-imagery of the human body and buildings (as we know in Google Earth’s KML-format), things can…
The history of the PC from 2000 – 2012
After IBM-compatible clones took over from Apple, Atari and ZX Spectrum, we just got used to that a PC is an X86 with MS Windows and Office on it. Around a decade ago Apple fought back with OSX on which Windows…
Molybdenite and graphene to the helping hand?
You might have read about Molybdenite a few months ago. It is more efficient than Graphene which is in turn more efficient than good old Silicon, most notable energy-wise. Magazine ‘Nature’ had an article on it, which is summarised by Psychorg,…
PathScale ENZO
My todo-list gets too large, because there seem so many things going on in GPGPU-world. Therefore the following article is not really complete, but I hope it gives you an idea of the product. ENZO was presented as the alternative to…
OpenCL Developer support by NVIDIA, AMD and Intel
There was some guy at Microsoft who understood IT very well while being a businessman: “Developers, developers, developers, developers!”. You saw it again in the mobile market and now with OpenCL. Normally I watch his yearly speech to see which product…
Support matrix of Compute SDKs
Multi-Core Processors and the SDKs The empty boxes tell IBM and ARM have a lot of influence. With NVIDIA’s current pace with introducing new products (hardware and CUDA), they could also take on ARM. The matrix is restricted to current better-known…
Disruptive Technologies
Steve Streeting tweeted a few weeks ago: “Remember, experts are always wrong about disruptive tech, because it disrupts what they’re experts in.”. I’m happy I evangelise and work with such a disruptive technology and it will take time until it is…
Engineering World 2011: OpenCL in the Cloud
[Dutch] Op het Sogeti Engineering World 2011 heb ik een presentatie gehouden over OpenCL in de cloud, in het Nederlands. Om the coolheidsfactor te verhogen heb ik gebruik gemaakt van Prezi als contrast met de standaard dia-show-presentaties. Het resultaat treft u…