The Khronos Group has ratified OpenCL 1.1, a programming standard for parallel execution of tasks across multicore processors, the standards-setting organization said on Monday. The OpenCL standard, ...

A new version of the interface makes software running on graphics chips more self-reliant and better at sharing data with conventional software running on CPUs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe explains how OpenCL may make FPGAs an attractive option. In January 2015, FPGAs took a step closer to the mainstream of ...

Premiere Pro has already been tearing through video with OpenCL on Macs for a year, and now AMD and Adobe have teamed up to bring support for the open standard to Windows with the software's next ...

The Khronos Group, the organization responsible for maintaining a number of open standards such as OpenGL, WebGL, and OpenMAX, has announced the release of OpenCL 1.1, an update to the cross-platform ...

AMD has announced the release of the first OpenCL SDK for x86 CPUs, and it will enable developers to target x86 processors with the kind of OpenCL code that’s normally written for GPUs. In a way, this ...

The use of FPGAs in HPC is limited less by the capabilities of current hardware and more by the challenges in programming them without sacrificing performance. Recent work from Boston University has ...

Don’t let your gaming card loaf around anymore. Free benchmark Luxmark can give it an OpenCL education, complete with a final grade. As graphics cards have grown more complex and powerful over the ...

The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X. Since the mid 90s, ...

The initial era of programmable technologies contained two different extremes of programmability. One extreme was the single-core CPU and DSP units. These were programmable using software consisting ...

Though the “techlectic” SC08 crowd at Austin’s Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant Monday night was thirsty for cold beer and hungry for nachos and quesadillas, they were equally famished for information on ...

Apple was stingy with details about Snow Leopard when it briefly previewed the next version of OS X at this summer’s Worldwide Developers Conference. But based on the company’s public statements about ...