Khronos Group contributor member ETRI has published a WebCL implementation for the Chromium web browser on Github. You can find this and many other resources on the official WebCL resources page.

Crosswalk 14 is now Beta. This release comes with the usual update to Chromium (M43)and introduces the WebCL API for devices that support OpenCL. Crosswalk Project enables you to deploy a web application with its own dedicated runtime.

The Khronos Group will be at SIGGRAPH Asia this coming weekend. Neil Trevett, Khronos Group President and VP of Mobile Content at NVIDIA will be speaking. There will be a panel session “Next Frontiers For Interactive Applications” on Saturday followed by a tech-talk “What’s Next In Graphics APIs?” on Saturday December 6th which will cover the rapidly changing landscape of acceleration APIs for mobile devices and the Next Generation OpenGL Initiative first revealed at SIGGRAPH 2014.

Neil Trevett on initiatives that are unlocking the power of the GPU for web applications including WebGL and WebCL. Talk was at The Graphical Web 2014 conference at The University of Winchester as organised by The Office for National Statistics.

Khronos OpenROAD is an animated video featuring all the royalty-free Khronos APIs working together in an open ecosystem. We started with an idea: a simple sketch of a sports car–and then show how Khronos APIs make it a reality. Our technology powers everything from the initial CAD design and simulation using OpenGL and OpenCL, to the in-car entertainment and communications using OpenSL ES, OpenMAX, and OpenVX, to its starring role in a mobile game using WebGL and WebCL.

If you work in graphics, you live and die by your tools. if you work in graphics for the web, this means Chrome or Firefox developer tools. Join the Khronos Toronto Chapter to discuss and learn about the latest web tools in Firefox and Chrome for WebGL and WebCL. For OpenGL folks there’ll be a discussion to compare web graphics tools to native graphics tools.

The Graphical Web 2014 is being organised by the Data Visualisation Centre, UK Office for National Statistics and will be held at the University of Winchester, England over 4 days from Wednesday August 27th through to Saturday August 30th. The theme of the conference will be Visual Storytelling using new technology to produce compelling visual narratives on the web. Neil Trevett will be giving a State of the Union address on WebGL and WebCL, as well the Khronos Group will be sponsoring this event.

Going to SIGGRAPH? Be sure to drop into one of our seven Birds of a Feather events, all followed up by our famous BOF Blitz™ After Party. We’ve got some great news and amazing presentations waiting for you.

Samsung gave a talk on using WebCL in HTML5 gaming at the last “Next Game Frontier” event in France last March. The video from this talk is available online.

The Khronos Group today announced a number of new and significant updates to its portfolio of open, royalty free industry standards that enable the authoring and acceleration of parallel computing, graphics, vision, sensor processing and dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices:

• OpenGL® ES 3.1 Specification Released – The next leap in mobile & embedded graphics
• WebCL™ 1.0 Specification Released – Browser-based heterogeneous compute acceleration
• SYCL™ 1.2 Provisional Specification Released – Enabling high-level C++ tools for OpenCL
• OpenCL™ 2.0 Adopters Program Launched – Driving OpenCL 2.0 conformance
• EGL™ 1.5 Specification Released – The essential glue for secure, integrated API rendering

The Khronos Group today announced the ratification and public release of the WebCL 1.0 specification. Developed in close cooperation with the Web community, WebCL extends the capabilities of HTML5 browsers by enabling developers to offload computationally intensive processing to available computational resources such as multicore CPUs and GPUs. WebCL defines JavaScript bindings to OpenCL APIs that enable Web applications to compile OpenCL C kernels and manage their parallel execution. Like WebGL, WebCL is expected to enable a rich ecosystem of JavaScript middleware that provides access to accelerated functionality to a wide diversity of Web developers. Please join us March 20th for our WebCL DevU at GDC.

The Khronos Group DevU sessions at GDC 2014 are happening this week. We’re looking forward to seeing everyone for lots of learning, prizes and refreshments. Complete details are online for our 7 DevU sessions. The sessions will take place on the 19th and 20th of March as well a joint press conference with the PC Gaming Alliance on March 19th. This not to be missed 2 day event is packed with lots of guest speakers from many companies. Seating is reserved and signup pages are available for each session here: OpenCL, OpenVX, OpenGL ES, OpenGL, WebCL, COLLADA, WebGL.

Join the Khronos Group’s WebCL and WebGL work groups at this Intel sponsored O’Reilly conference. Hear Tasneem Brutch and Steven Eliuk from the WebCL working group and Tony Parisi from WebGL and glTF working groups.