Message boards : Number crunching : OpenCL: democracy for GPU Computing
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Interesting article about the ratification of the OpenCL standard | |
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Nice find - thank you for posting it. Its a good "real world" overview and strongly makes the point that talk of a "brave new world" of OpenCL computing with all chatting happily to each other is a ways off yet. At the same time it was bullish about the eventual outcome. If the internal thoughts of the various OpenCL teams are similarly bullish and long-term cooperative minded, its looking good. | |
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 Paul D. BuckSend message Joined: 9 Jun 08 Posts: 1050 Credit: 37,321,185 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications      | |
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It also brings out the point I made some time ago, writing in CUDA or Brook /CAL is going to be more efficient than OpenCL and that there will be lag in support for newer cards. That said, it will still allow more portable code for those projects without the resources to create versions for the two MFGR's APIs ... | |
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As i read this i think there is a super long road to go before its gonna be usefull. | |
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Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 9 Jun 08 Posts: 1050 Credit: 37,321,185 RAC: 0 Level Scientific publications | |
As i read this i think there is a super long road to go before its gonna be usefull. There will be a place for CUDA and CAL (or their successors) forever ... OpenCL will complement them, never replace them ... I suspect only those projects that cannot afford to invest in the "hand-coding" needed to use the CUDA or CAL APIs will use OpenCL. | |
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Message boards : Number crunching : OpenCL: democracy for GPU Computing
