Khronos Group launches 2012 Pan Pacific Tour
The Khronos Group is hosting a series of DevUs, educational sessions, Member F2F meetings and news conferences aimed at the educational community. The Khronos Pan Pacific Road Show 2012 is devoted to the Pan Pacific region with a focus on education and training, OpenGL and OpenGL ES, OpenCL, WebGL, WebCL OpenVG, OpenSL ES and OpenMAX. Complete details on all the upcoming events can be found on the Khronos Group event page. The first events will be held in Hsinchu and Taipei starting February 14 2012. Event registration is filling up fast, please be sure to reserve your spot today.
CAPS offers introduction to Parallelism and OpenCL training in France
CAPS, the Many-core Programming Company, a leading provider of software and solutions for HPC Community will be offering two 2 day courses this March 13-14 and 15-16. The first course offers an introduction to parallelism with MPI and OpenMP. The second course will cover the basics of OpenCL. 50 computing hours on a hybrid cluster will be offered to each participant at no extra cost.
AMD FirePro V3900 offers OpenCL workstation performance and reliability
The newly announced AMD FirePro V3900 workstation graphics card is powered by the Turks GPU w/ 1GB of DDR3 memory, 480 stream processors and support for up to 5 display devices using AMD Eyefinity and DisplayPort 1.2. The GPU is designed to deliver OpenGL and OpenCL performance, reliability and compatibility of a high end graphics card at an entry level price point.
ArrayFire OpenCL function library
ArrayFire is a fast software library for GPU computing with an easy-to-use API for OpenCL and CUDA. Its array-based function set makes GPU programming simple. ArrayFire is available for C, C++, Fortran, and Python and integrates with AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA hardware. ArrayFire is currently available in beta form for AMD and Intel hardware using OpenCL.
ImageMagick now uses OpenCL
ImageMagick now has certain algorithms which are OpenCL-enabled to take advantage of speed-ups offered by executing in concert across heterogeneous platforms consisting of CPUs, GPUs, and other processors.
Khronos Group launches Pan Pacific Tour this month
The Khronos Group's growth continues to be significant and demonstrates the huge opportunity we share as members of this highly specialized industry. Throughout 2012, Khronos is hosting a series of media events, educational sessions and F2F meetings for consortium members and prospective clients. The Khronos Pan Pacific Road Show 2012 is devoted to our members and colleagues in the Pan Pacific region with a focus on education and training. Complete details on all the upcoming events can be found on the Khronos Group event page. The first events will be held in Taiwan starting February 13 2012.
OpenCL In Action: Post-Processing Apps, Accelerated
The first of nine segments which will demonstrate how its hardware can benefit optimized applications using OpenCL.
New OpenCL sorting and scanning library released
CLOGS is a library for higher-level operations on top of the OpenCL C++ API. It is designed to integrate with other OpenCL code, including synchronization using OpenCL events.
Currently two operations are supported: radix sorting and exclusive scan. Radix sort supports all the unsigned integral types as keys, and all the built-in scalar and vector types suitable for storage in buffers as values. Scan supports all the integral types. It also supports vector types, which allows for limited multi-scan capabilities.
Rightware Releases Basemark CL for Multicore Benchmarking
Rightware announced public availability of Basemark CL. The OpenCL benchmark product provides diverse performance measurement capabilities for device manufacturers, semiconductor companies and their ecosystem to test and optimize OpenCL implementations. The version launched today features tests targeted for desktop computers. An embedded profile version of the benchmark will be published at a later stage.
OpenCL accelerated extraction and classification of Haar features with color
CMSoft presents a study on how to use OpenCL to accelerate the extraction of color Haar-like wavelet features from color images. This process involves OpenCL acceleration of the computation of the image integral, generation of regions of sliding window in the target picture and preparing data structures to receive all features.