The first two parts described hardware-companies and operating systems, programming languages and software-companies, written about half a year ago. Now we focus on what has driven NVIDIA and ATI/AMD for decades: games. Disclaimer: this is an opinion-piece on the current market….
All the members of the OpenCL working group 2010
(If you’re searching for companies who offer OpenCL-products and services, please visit OpenCL:Pro) You probably have heard AMD is on the OpenCL working group of Khronos; but there are many more and they possibly all have plans to use it. Here…
nVidia’s CUDA vs OpenCL Marketing
Please read this article about Microsoft and OpenCL, before reading on. The people of Unigine did the requested benchmarking, and have some results on differences between the three big GPGPU-APIs. See their part I, part II and part III with some…
OpenCL – the battle, part II
Part II: the software-companies It is very clear what’s at stake for the hardware-companies; we’ve also discussed the operating systems. But what should the software companies do? For companies which make i.e. encoding-software or databases it is very simple: support OpenCL…
OpenCL – the battle, part I
Part I: the Hardware-companies and Operating Systems (Part II will be about programming languages and software-companies, part III about the gaming-industry) OpenCL is the new, but already de-facto standard of stream-computing; but how it got there so fast is somewhat strange….