Khronos just announced three OpenCL based releases: SYCL 1.2 Provisional Spec – Abstraction Layer for Leveraging C++ and OpenCL WebCL 1.0 Final Spec – JavaScript bindings to OpenCL OpenCL 2.0 Adopters Program – Conformance for OpenCL 2.0 implementations Below I’ve quoted…
Khronos Invites Press & Game Developers to Sessions @ GDC San Francisco
Khronos just sent out the below message to Press and Game Developers. To my understanding, there are many game devs under the readers of this blog, so I’d like you to share the message with you. JOIN KHRONOS GROUP AT GDC…
Commodity and Open Standards – why OpenCL matters
This article actually discusses the question: is GPGPU a solution for the masses, or is it for niche-products? For the latter open standards matter a lot less, as you will read. If you watch the below video on sale&marketing by Victor…
OpenCL hardware test centre @ StreamHPC
Wanting to test your OpenCL-software on specific hardware? From now on, that is possible by logging in on StreamHPCs test-servers. Update: new prices. Got feedback it should compete with Amazon EC2. During the beta-period (February to April) we have available: [list1]…
video: OpenCL on Android
Michael Leahy spoke on AnDevCon’13 about OpenCL on Android. Enjoy the overview! Subjects (globally): What is OpenCL 13 dwarfs RenderScript Demo Mr.Leahy is quite critical about Google’s recent decisions to try to block OpenCL in favour of their own proprietary RenderScript…
Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) – the TL;DR
The main problem of discrete GPUs is that memory needs to be transferred from CPU-memory to GPU-memory. Luckily we have SoCs (GPU and CPU in one die), but still you need to do in-memory transfers as the two processors cannot access…
PRACE Spring School 2014
On 15 – 17 April 2014 a 3-day workshop around HPC is organised. It is free, and focuses on bringing industry and academy together. Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC) / Johannes Kepler University Linz Kirchenplatz 5b (Castle of Hagenberg) 4232 Hagenberg…
First Khronos Chapter meeting in Amsterdam: WebGL/OpenGL
Thursday 13 February 2014 the first Khronos meetup in will take place. We expect a small group, so the location will be cozy and there will be enough time to talk with a beer. First round is on me, admission is…
OpenCL alternatives for CUDA Linear Algebra Libraries
While CUDA has had the advantage of having many more libraries, this is no longer its main advantage if it comes to linear algebra. If one thing changed over the past year, then it is linalg library-support for OpenCL. The choices…
European HPC Magazines
If one thing can be said about Europe, is that it is quite diverse. Each country solves or fails to solve its own problems individually, while European goals are not always well-cared for. Nevertheless, you can notice things changing. One of…
VectorFabrics: 2014 will be parallel
Toolmaker VectorFabrics sent 9 predictions for this year in their newsletter. I’d like to share it with you. Nine predictions for 2014 that prove the programming landscape is changing It is not hard to predict that this year will see a…