The Khronos Group - a non-profit industry consortium to develop, publish and promote open standard, royalty-free media authoring and acceleration standards for desktop and handheld devices, combined with conformance qualification programs for platform and device interoperability.
The AMD exhibit showcases offer attendees a range of hands-on workflow experiences powered by AMD FirePro professional graphics: New fully integrated and redesigned OpenCL AMD accelerated features for Adobe Premiere Pro CC allow editors to be more creative with color than before. In addition to OpenCL streamlined color features, Adobe will showcase an all new OpenCL powered Morph Cut feature for making jump cuts natural and seamless; Autodesk demonstration featuring the FireRender plug-in for 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya with OpenCL accelerated Bullet Physics and deformers powered by a workstation with AMD FirePro W9100 professional graphics. Read More
Samsung R&D Institute UK invites you to the next meeting of the Khronos UK Chapter on Tuesday 14th April, taking place during the LLVM conference in the New Academic Building at Goldsmiths, University of London. The meeting will focus on how SPIR-V is a cornerstone of the new Vulkan and OpenCL 2.1 APIs recently announced by Khronos, how SPIR-V evolved from LLVM IR and why a binary intermediate language is important to the industry. Read More
Now online are the program and early bird registration for IWOCL 2015 which is taking place between 11-13 May at Stanford University, CA. The event has been extended to three days and now includes an Advanced Hands-On OpenCL course on the Monday. On Tuesday we have also included a special panel session to enable developers to discuss the provisional OpenCL 2.1 and SPIR-V specifications and provide their feedback to members of Khronos. Full details of the line-up of OpenCL speakers and sessions are online. Read More
Xiaomi introduced its flagship tablet Mi Pad last week. Xiaomi Mi Pad houses the new generation Nvidia Tegra K1 processor. Inside, it packs ARM Cortex A15 quad-core chipset which can clock 2.2GHz CPU cycles and is backed by GeForce Kepler (192 cores) graphics engine. It is 1.5 times more energy efficient than other mobile GPUs and supports OpenGL 4.4, OpenGL ES 3.1 and tessellation, says the company. Mi Pad runs on the tweaked Android OS (4.4.4 KitKat) with MIUI v6.0. Unlike other UIs we see in Samsung, HTC, Sony and LG devices, Xiaomi's MIUI has a feature-rich interface and is refreshing. It is more like a hybrid between Android and iOS, yet simple and visually appealing. Read More
Synopsys, Inc announced availability of its new ASIP Designer tool that speeds the design of application-specific instruction-set processors (ASIPs) and programmable accelerators. Integrated LLVM-based compiler front-end and OpenCL kernel language support enables efficient compilation of C, C++ and OpenCL-based application code. Read More
The new AIDA64 release implements optimized benchmarks for AMD “Carrizo” and Intel “Broadwell” processors, SensorPanel and external LCD improvements, and supports the latest nVIDIA GeForce and Quadro graphics accelerators, including OpenCL 2.1 support. Read More
