Already the fourth PDF-Monday. It takes quite some time, so I might keep it to 10 in the future – but till then enjoy! Not sure which to read? Pick the first one (for the rest there is not order). Edit:…
Interest in OpenCL
Since more than a year I have this blog and I want to show the visitors around the world. Why? Then you know where OpenCL is popular and where not. I chose an unknown period, so you cannot really reverse engineer…
PDFs of Monday 12 September
As it got more popular that I shared my readings, I decided to put them on my site. I focus on everything that uses vector-processing (GPUs, heterogeneous computing, CUDA, OpenCL, GPGPU, etc). Did I miss something or you have a story you…
PDFs of Monday 5 September
Live from le Centre Pompidou in Paris: Monday PDF-day. I have never been inside the building, but it is a large public library where people are queueing to get in – no end to the knowledge-economy in Paris. A great place…
PDFs of Monday 29 August
This is the first PDF-Monday. It started as I used Mondays to read up on what happens around OpenCL and I like to share with you. It is a selection of what I find (somewhat) interesting – don’t hesitate to contact…
MPI in terms of OpenCL
OpenCL is a member of a family of Host-Kernel programming language extensions. Others are CUDA, IMPC and DirectCompute/AMP. It lets itself define by a separate function or set of functions referenced to as kernel, which are prepared and launched by the…
Is OpenCL coming to Apple iOS?
Answer: No, or not yet. Apple tested Intel and AMD hardware for OSX, and not portable devices. Sorry for the false rumour; I’ll keep you posted. Update: It seems that OpenCL is on iOS, but only available to system-libraries and not…
Power to the Vector Processor
Reducing energy-consumption is “hot” After reading this article “Nvidia is losing on the HPC front” by The Inquirer which mixes up the demand for low-power architectures with the other side of the market: the demand for high performance. It made me think…
Aparapi: OpenCL in Java
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…