OpenCL for heterogeneous reconfigurable systems programming
Alexey Shmatok recently gave a presentation at Rosta Company on the possibility of using OpenCL for rapid application development. Alexey has made forecasts on the possibility of using OpenCL concept for self-assembling nano-electronic devices. His slides are available in both Russian and English.
Fixstars to Release Beta Version of “FOXC” OpenCL Compiler for x86
Fixstars has announced a beta version of "FOXC" OpenCL Compiler for x86. FOXC will allow software developers to take full advantage of multi-core x86 CPUs to develop OpenCL-based softwares. This is a source-to-source compiler that takes OpenCL code as the input source and the output source file is a readable C code. The "FOXC" Beta version can be downloaded for free from the Fixstars website.
AMD and SiSoftware Collaborate on Benchmark Suite for OpenCL
AMD announced collaborate with SiSoftware to develope one of the first industry benchmark testing suites for OpenCL. To be released by SiSoftware, the OpenCL GPGPU benchmark suite is part of SiSoftware Sandra 2010. The benchmark suite includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, mobile devices and networks, and can be used to test OpenCL performance on ATI Stream technology.
OpenCL receives strong industry support at SC09
Ben Bergen, evolving applications and architectures team, Los Alamos National Laboratory, commented at SC09 : "Our development experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory with adapting codes to the Roadrunner supercomputing architecture exposed several areas where there were no obvious tools or techniques that would allow us to maintain portability across the variety of platforms that we must routinely support to fulfil the Laboratory’s stewardship mission. Initial proof-of-concept experiments with the OpenCL framework make us optimistic that OpenCL can address many of the challenges that we will be facing as the HPC landscape evolves into the future."
Khronos Group invites you to Siggraph Asia 2009
Following their successful participation in SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, The Khronos Group is again hosting a “Developer University” as well as expanding their activities by exhibiting on the show floor. The Khronos Group is proud to invite you to Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan at booth C12. Updates will be given on all of the major Khronos API's including OpenGL, OpenCL, COLLADA, OpenMAX, OpenVG and OpenGLES, as well, some major announces surrounding WebGL. Complete details as they become available are online.
Imagination Technologies’ to deliver POWERVR SGX543MP multi-processor graphics
Imagination Technologies will start to deliver IP for its POWERVR SGX543MP multi-processor graphics cores in early December. The POWERVR SGX543MP features scalable GP-GPU compute power, which can be fully utilised through all Khronos APIs including OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1, OpenVG™ 1.x and OpenCL™.
DirectCompute Benchmark now works with OpenCL
DirectCompute is a small tool which allows you to benchmark both DirectCompute and OpenCL general-purpose computing APIs by calculating tons of FFT-like data and some memory transfers. This version adds full OpenCL support, shaders profile selection, versions reporting and some basic results validations.
OpenCL awarded Editor’s Choice Award at SC09
The Khronos Groups OpenCL API was awarded Editor's Choice Award this week, by HPCwire, at SC09. Every year at the Supercomputing Conference, HPCwire announces their Annual Readers and Editors Choice Awards. Hosted in Portland, Oregon in its 21st year, SC is recognized as the premier international conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis.
VMWare releases new Gallium3D driver with support for OpenCL and OpenGL
VMWare recently released new Gallium3D drivers usable by guest operating systems running within VMware's virtualization platform. The drivers will allow virtualized guests to have accelerated access to X11, OpenGL, OpenCL, X-Video, XvMC, and all sorts of other possibilities, limited only by what's supported by the available state trackers.
SiSoftware Releases OpenCL benchmarks as part of SiSoftware Sandra 2010
SiSoftware releases its suite of OpenCL GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processor Unit) benchmarks as part of SiSoftware Sandra 2010, the latest version of our award-winning utility, which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, and networks.