Knowing all errors by heart is good for quick programming, but not always the best option. Therefore I started to create a full list with extra info, taken from cl.h and the reference documentation. The problem with many error-codes is that…
ERSA-NVIDIA award for “Best Young Entrepreneur”
StreamHPC supports the ERSA conference, 22-25 July in Las Vegas. At that conference there will be an award given to “Best Young Entrepreneur” and I’d like you to send in a proposal. The winner gets an NVIDIA Tesla K20! Young entrepreneurs…
12-14 June: OpenCL Training Amsterdam
From 12 to 14 June StreamHPC will give a 3-day course in OpenCL (was 3 to 5 June). Here you will learn how to develop OpenCL-programs. A separate ticket for only the first day can be bought, as then will be…
Scaling mobile GPUs to 1000 GFLOPS
On the 20th of April 2013 there was an interesting discussion between Jan Gray and David Kanter. Jan is a specialist in C++ and FPGAs (twitter, homepage). David is a specialist in CPU and GPU architectures (twitter, homepage). Both know their ways well…
Q&A with Adrien Plagnol and Frédéric Langlade-Bellone on WebCL
WebCL is a great technique to have compute-power in the browser. After WebGL which gives high-end graphics in the browser, this is a logical step on the road towards the browser-only operating system (like Chrome OS, but more will follow). Another…
LEAP-conference call for papers
Embedded processors always have had the focus on low-energy. Now a combination of Moore’s law, the frequency-wall and multi-processor developments have made it possible for these processors to compete in completely new market segments. Most notable due to impressive advancements in…
OpenCL Basics: Flags for the creating memory objects
In OpenCL large memory objects, residing in the main memory of the host or the global memory at the accelerator/GPU, need special treatment. First reason is that these memories are relatively slow. Second reason is that the most times serial copy…
Low-Energy Application Parallelism (LEAP) conference in London
For more information on the program, contact us. For information on sponsoring, contact Tim Lewis of CroftEdge. Website with more info and ticket-sales will open 1 February.
StreamHPC is at HiPEAC, Berlin
HiPEAC is the conference on “High-performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers” to be held on 20 to 22 January in Berlin – tickets are still available, if you can spare three days. I (Vincent Hindriksen) would like to share the program…
X86-workstation buying guide for OpenCL developers, Q1 2013
Important: this article was written before Intel “Haswell” and AMD “Richland” architectures came out. So you want to start developing for OpenCL? When you focus on developing OpenCL for X86, you have these three options: CPUs, GPUs and CPUs with and embedded GPU. This…