This post is part of the series Programming Theories, in which we discuss new and old ways of programming. When discussing the design of programming languages or the extension of existing ones, the question What concepts can simplify the tasks of…
AMD OpenCL Programming Guide August 2013 is out!
AMD has just released an update to their AMD programming guide. Download the guide (PDF) August version Download the guide (PDF) November version Download TOC (PDF) For more optimisation guides, see the tutorials page of the knowledge base. Table of Contents…
A list of Desktop GPU architectures
UPDATED in February 2017 Some optimisation tricks work really well on one architecture, and are useless on others. And even with better drivers, the older architectures need some help. In other words, it helps to know what architecture the GPU has….
Google blocked OpenCL on Nexus with Android 4.3
Important: this is only for Google-branded Nexus phones – other brands are free to do what they want, and they most-probably will. Also important: this doesn’t mean that OpenCL on Android devices will be over, but that there is a bump…