Khronos Group posts Siggraph 2009 OpenCL BOF presentation slides
If you missed the OpenCL BOF at Siggraph, no worries, the Khronos Group has posted the OpenCL BOF slides used during the presentation. You may view and download the slides in PDF format in the Khronos Developer Library.
AMD Delivers Industry’s First OpenCL™ Software Development Platform for x86 CPUs
AMD announced it is now offering a free OpenCL™ for CPU beta download as part of the ATI Stream SDK v2.0 Beta Program. The beta will help programmers to more easily develop parallel software programs and take further advantage of multi-core x86 CPUs to accelerate software and deliver a better computing experience. AMD has submitted conformance logs from its Microsoft® Windows® and Linux® CPU beta releases to the Khronos Working Group for certification.
OpenCL, DX Compute Shader, and more
TechReport recently spoke with Neil Trevett about OpenCL, who fills positions as both the Khronos Group's President and Nvidia's VP of Embedded Content.This two page report is well written and an easy read.
AMD Posts Introductory Tutorial to OpenCL
AMD just published a public OpenCL Beta for the CPU, soon to be followed with support for AMD’s latest GPUs. OpenCL is a young technology and there are few documents that provide a basic introduction with examples. This article, by Benedict Gaster from AMD, helps make OpenCL easier to understand and implement.
OpenCL, OpenGL and COLLADA BOFs overview now online
The Khronos Group has posted the outline for all three of their BOFs. Representatives from AMD, Intel and NVIDIA will be presenting at the OpenCL BOF. COLLADA has a large line-up of presenters covering many topics. The OpenGL BOF will have OpenGL news from Barthold Lichtenbelt, ARB / NVIDIA, a presenter from Mozilla will talk about '3D on the Web, OpenGL ES in JavaScript', as well as an Open GL ES update and much more. All the details are available online.
Petapath creates OpenCL Twibe to help development
Petapath is actively using OpenCL for internal development purposes. "With only a single public Beta of a GPU OpenCL driver available it’s certainly early days for using OpenCL in earnest. Even the OpenCL forum at the Khronos Goup has a limited amount of traffic from users (but people who are working hard on OpenCL are definitely there to help)." says the Petapath website. Petapath is going to start posting comments and experiences they've had with OpenCL. Petapath has also created an OpenCL Twitter Twibe on which they will post interesting news, links and related information. The Khronos Group is also on twitter.
Jon Peddie predicts 2010 Graphics industry will make a spectacular comeback
Jon Peddie has issued a press release stating that 2010 will show the graphics industry making a spectacular comeback, after the dismal 2009 year. "Architectural changes like Intel's Nehalem and new product introductions from AMD, ATI, Intel, and Nvidia are going to be disruptive to the status quo" says Jon Peddie. Snow Leopard and Windows 7 will also act as a catalyst to spur on the continuing expansion of GPGPU, otherwise known as GPU compute. OpenCL along with DirectX and NVIDIA's CUDA will go even further in making the GPU a "serious, economical, and powerful coprocessor in all level of PCs."
Khronos attending Siggraph 2009 - event page updates, BOFs announced
The Khronos Group will be attending Siggraph again this year, and have announced 3 BOF's. This year Khronos will be hosting another OpenGL BOF, an OpenCL and a COLLADA BOF. Complete details are on Khronos' Siggraph events page. Although the discount registration period is over, Siggraph is offering to those who are unemployed, a special discount in order to help offset the current economic conditions. Complete details are on this page. The Khronos Group looks forward to seeing all of you this year at Siggraph.
Fixstars to hold the first OpenCL™ programming seminar in Tokyo, Japan
Fixstars Corporation is proud to host the OpenCL programming seminar for software developers in Tokyo, July 23. Fixstars will contribute to the penetration of the OpenCL in various industries by teaching at seminars with its expertise in multi-core programming. "Khronos warmly welcomes Fixstars hosting the first OpenCL programming seminar in Japan," said Neil Trevett, chair of the OpenCL working group, president of the Khronos Group and vice president at NVIDIA. "Providing developers the skills and insights to use a state-of-the-art technology such as OpenCL is a vital part of the growing parallel programming ecosystem, and Fixstars is uniquely qualified to provide the quality training that will result in stunning parallel applications." Fixstars recently joined the Khronos Group as a contributing member.
The Open Toolkit 0.9.9 brings OpenCL to .Net
The Open Toolkit is a set of advanced, cross-platform bindings to OpenGL, OpenCL and OpenAL for Mono/.Net. The latest release adds support for the OpenCL 'flat' API and improves platform integration and speed.