The Khronos Group announces the availability of the SYCL Adopters Program for the C++-based programming framework for parallel programming. Under the Adopters Program, implementers of SYCL 1.2.1 can access an extensive conformance test suite, and then upload their test results to Khronos for review and the opportunity to become officially conformant. Together with the SYCL Adopters Program, Khronos also announces the release of a maintenance update for SYCL 1.2.1, delivering specification clarifications that enable enhanced run-time optimizations.

The Khronos™ Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies creating advanced acceleration standards, announces the launch of the OpenGL® 4.6 Adopters Program to enable implementations to become officially conformant to the latest generation OpenGL specification. The significantly enhanced OpenGL 4.6 Conformance Test Suite used in the Adopters Program has been released in open source on GitHub to enable industry participation in testing and ongoing conformance test suite improvements. General information on Khronos Adopters Programs can be found here.

During the recent Linley Group Conference, Cadence announced that their Tensilica Vision P5 and Tensilica Vision P6 are now in conformance with OpenVX 1.1. Learn more about the Tensilica Vision DSPs in a recent post from Cadence, “See Further by Standing on the Shoulders of…OpenVX” and on the Cadence Tensilica product page. To learn more about the Khronos OpenVX, or become an OpenVX Adopter. A complete list of OpenVX Adopters is available online.

Socionext Inc., a leader in state-of-the art system-on-chip technology, has developed the “SC1810” series, the fourth generation version of its high-performance graphics display controllers. In addition to further strengthening the graphics functions for in-vehicle display system, which the company has proven achievements, Socionext incorporated the industry first hardware accelerator that conforms with Khronos Group’s computer vision API OpenVX to the SC1810. Full press release in PDF can be read here.

The Khronos Group is soliciting quotations to implement conformance tests for the emerging OpenVX computer vision library standard. Khronos is pleased to receive queries or responses relating to this RFQ from any interested party. If you are interested to bid on this RFQ, please let us know of your interest as soon as possible and send your full proposal by the close of business on May 30th 2014 to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) as per the attached instructions. If you have any additional questions, you can direct them to this same e-mail address.

The Khronos Group today announced the availability of the official conformance test suite for the OpenCL 2.0 specification, making it possible for implementers to certify that their implementations are officially conformant thorough the Khronos OpenCL Adopters Program. Khronos has also released a set of header files for OpenCL 2.0 and an updated specification with a number of clarifications and corrections to the specification first released in November 2013. The specification, header files and links to the Khronos Adopters site and feedback forums are available online.

drawElements is proud to announce the addition of ARM to their GPU analysis system drawElements Quality Program. ARM expands its quality assurance processes with the adoption of the OpenCL and OpenGL ES 3.0 test modules of the drawElements Quality Program – the dEQP. The dEQP provides ARM with tens of thousands of automated test cases as well as associated services from drawElements’ expert engineers.

drawElements announced that Vivante Corporation has subscribed to the drawElements Quality Program. The drawElements Quality Program focuses on quality assurance and consists of multiple API test modules that ensure robust OpenGL ES, EGL, and OpenCL vendor implementations.

The Khronos Group announces that the full COLLADA Test Suite is now ported to GitHub and is free to use to exhaustively test the quality of any COLLADA importer/exporter, with a full tutorial on how to use the test suite.

Imagination Technologies announces that it is among the first to submit PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ drivers for OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance with Khronos. Designed for the latest APIs, including OpenGL ES 3.0, PowerVR Series6 is already shipping in end user product. Product is based on a published Khronos Specification, and is expected to pass the Khronos Conformance Testing Process. Current conformance status can be found online.

The OpenGL ES Working Group is pleased to announce the launch of the OpenGL ES 3.0 Adopter program. OpenGL ES implementers that join the program get access to the OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance test, and are able to submit their products for OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance certification. The OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance test is the result of the largest software development project Khronos has ever undertaken. It is a revised and expanded version of the OpenGL ES 2.0 conformance test, with hundreds of subtests directed at the new features of OpenGL ES 3.0. Conformance certification is the mark of a high-quality implementation, and offers a high level of application portability. More information about the OpenGL ES 3.0 Adopter program can be found in the Adopters’ Agreement and the Khronos Conformance Test Process document.