Fixstars, who we usually cover here for reasons of news related to Yellow Dog Linux, announced today that they’ve released an electronic OpenCL programming book called, oddly enough, the OpenCL ...

OpenCL, created to support parallel programming in Apple's Snow Leopard operating system, may become the new world standard for parallel programming on all platforms. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer ...

VIENNA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Workshop on OpenCL – The Khronos™ Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, announces the immediate availability of the OpenCL™ 2.2, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices is making a beta version of a tool for programming multicore processors available free online. The OpenCL for CPU beta will be part of AMD's ATI Stream ...

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Khronos™ Group today announced the ratification and public release of updated OpenCL™ 2.0 and Provisional SYCL™ 1.2 specifications. The new specifications ...

OpenCL is the an open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers, and handheld/embedded devices. OpenCL greatly improves ...

Today's graphics processors are highly programmable, massively parallel compute engines. In this role, they are commonly called general purpose graphics processing units, or GPGPUs. You can program ...

Snow Leopard has been out just a few days and folks are already trying to benchmark its OpenCL capabilities. While the available tools are barely a few days old, the results so far show some ...

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are becoming an increasingly popular tool for applications where high performance, low latency and power efficiency are requires. Since an FPGA can be ...

I'm in the market for a laptop for grad school. I will be doing computational engineering, specifically numerical solutions of partial differential equations. There will be a lot of multi-threading ...

Though the “techlectic” SC08 crowd at Austin’s Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant Monday night was thirsty for cold beer and hungry for nachos and quesadillas, they were equally famished for information on ...