Open standard for parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs
There is new initiative to create open standarts for parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs. I think this will be the next step in GPU computing. As I underspend this will be new open standard (something like OpenGL) that will be portable across different platforms. The name of the new standard is Open Computing Language (OpenCL):
“Khronos™ Group announced today the formation of a new Compute Working Group to create royalty-free, open standards for programming heterogeneous data and task parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs…”
It is targeted at C language but I do not think there will be any obstacles to use it from other languages too.
More on the Khronos Web Page
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