The Khronos Group today announced the ratification and public release of the OpenCL 1.0 specification, the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) greatly improves speed and responsiveness for a wide spectrum of applications in numerous market categories from gaming and entertainment to scientific and medical software.
Proposed six months ago as a draft specification by Apple, OpenCL has been developed and ratified by industry-leading companies including 3DLABS, Activision Blizzard, AMD, Apple, ARM, Barco, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, HI, IBM, Intel Corporation, Imagination Technologies, Kestrel Institute, Motorola, Movidia, Nokia, NVIDIA, QNX, RapidMind, Samsung, Seaweed, TAKUMI, Texas Instruments and Umea University. The OpenCL 1.0 specification and more details are available at www.khronos.org/opencl/.
“The opportunity to effectively unlock the capabilities of new generations of programmable compute and graphics processors drove the unprecedented level of cooperation to refine the initial proposal from Apple into the ratified OpenCL 1.0 specification,” said Neil Trevett, chair of the OpenCL working group, president of the Khronos Group and vice president at NVIDIA, in the press release. “As an open, cross-platform standard, OpenCL is a fundamental technology for next generation software development that will play a central role in the Khronos API ecosystem and we look forward to seeing implementations within the next year.”
“We are excited about the industry-wide support for OpenCL,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, in the press releease. “Apple developed OpenCL so that any application in Snow Leopard, the next major version of Mac OS X, can harness an amazing amount of computing power previously available only to graphics applications.”
OpenCL enables software developers to take full advantage of a diverse mix of multi-core CPUs, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Cell-type architectures and other parallel processors such as Digital Signal Processors (DSPs). OpenCL consists of an API for coordinating parallel computation and a programming language for specifying those computations. Specifically, the OpenCL standard defines:
• a subset of the C99 programming language with extensions for parallelism;
• an API for coordinating data and task-based parallel computation across a wide range of heterogeneous processors;
• numerical requirements based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ IEEE 754 standard;
• efficient interoperability with OpenGL, OpenGL ES and other graphics APIs.
Elliot Garbus, Intel vice president and general manager Visual Computing Software Division said in the press release: “Over the years Intel has worked closely with the industry to innovate through open standards and is a long standing member of the Khronos board of promoters. With the introduction of OpenCL, we see new opportunities for developers to innovate through a task- and data-parallel programming environment that can benefit from the performance and flexibility of current and future Intel products.”
Tony King-Smith, vice president of marketing at Imagination Technologies: “Imagination is delighted to have been involved in the authoring of OpenCL, which we see as a significant development for the future of GP-GPU based computing for multimedia.”
Tony Tamasi, senior vice president of technical marketing at NVIDIA stated: “OpenCL adds fuel to the most exciting parallel computational revolution of our generation – GPU Computing. It also provides another powerful way to harness the enormous processing capabilities of our CUDA-based GPUs on multiple platforms.”
Michael McCool, founder and chief scientist at RapidMind said: “As a provider of a high-level parallel programming platform, RapidMind is excited about the availability of a new standard for targeting compute devices through a single API. The low-level access to a variety of devices provided by OpenCL will allow our platform to expand to new devices more quickly than ever before.”
Representatives from Khronos and the OpenCL Working Group will be presenting an overview of the OpenCL specification at the Khronos Developer University at SIGGRAPH Asia in Singapore on 10th December 2008. More details of this free event are available here.
The Khronos Group is an industry consortium creating open standards to enable the authoring and acceleration of parallel computing, graphics and dynamic media on a wide variety of platforms and devices. Khronos standards include OpenGL, OpenGL ES, OpenMAX, OpenVG, OpenKODE, and COLLADA. All Khronos members are able to contribute to the development of Khronos specifications, are empowered to vote at various stages before public deployment, and are able to accelerate the delivery of their cutting-edge media platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests.
Khronos, OpenKODE, OpenVG, and OpenMAX are trademarks of the Khronos Group Inc. OpenCL is a trademark of Apple Inc., COLLADA is a trademark of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics Inc. used under license by Khronos.
Source: Khronos Group
MacDailyNews Note: From Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard webpage: Another powerful Snow Leopard technology, OpenCL (Open Computing Language), makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power currently locked up in the graphics processing unit (GPU). With GPUs approaching processing speeds of a trillion operations per second, they’re capable of considerably more than just drawing pictures. OpenCL takes that power and redirects it for general-purpose computing.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
Big base of stuff about this good post some people see at the freelance writing jobs .
That should be really easy to submit the good enough stuff just about this topic with support of submit article service, but very often different people opt for magazine article submission. Thus I do not get know what is best of all.
That is the nice issue. Was this workable to receive the metropcs ringtones or mp3 ringtones from this site?
Don’t have money to buy a building? You should not worry, just because it is real to take the loans to solve all the problems. Therefore get a small business loan to buy all you need.
In desperation, college students ask people such as mothers or friends to help them with academic papers writing. Nevertheless, they forget that only specialists who are employed at cheap essay writing service will be able to get competent aid! Therefore, do a correct choice!
With your aid some students have some information just about dissertation! Hence they order the good dissertation idea connecting with this good topic at the custom thesis service.
If they get know about your great fact, they would believably order the writing service.
One rewrites a student thesis in preparation to achieve a extravagant slice of academic education, such as in foundation to receive a master’s degree. But there are people who provide dissertation writing, it’s better way.
I’ve used two more writing house in the past and the research papers I received from the crew was by far the most well put in sync research paper of the three. But, this corporation more interesting and brisk. My explicitinstructions were followed and as a result of skillful writing illustration I was effectual to end my essays with confidence. I will categorically use this essay service in the future.
Inventing my site I had a problem of not original content. That made big harm to my site! Luckily, a comrade of mine suggested me to try the check plagiarism. In fact, my business is getting better now.
Wow, superior fact referring to this good post. Can please tell me how much time that will take? Just because I would like to complete some thesis titles or probably that will be good to notice the thesis writing service. Thank you so much.