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GPUVerify Contributor Wins National Award

Nathan Chong from Imperial College London has been announced as the overall winner in a prestigious UK competition for his work on GPUVerify (the verification technique and tool for the automatic analysis of GPU kernels written in OpenCL). The award recognises researchers who are pioneers in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Fifteen researchers showcased the [...]

2018-03-28T18:40:04+01:00July 2nd, 2014|Blog|

Intel Publish OpenCL API Debugger Tutorial

OpenCL API Debugger is a Microsoft Visual Studio plug-in that enables debugging of OpenCL applications. API Debugger is a new feature of the Compute Code Builder found in Intel’s Integrated Native Developer Experience (INDE) and the Intel SDK for OpenCL Applications 2014 Beta. The API Debugger lets developers view the list of all OpenCL API [...]

2014-07-02T06:49:34+01:00July 2nd, 2014|Blog, Intel|

AMD’s Core Math Library (ACML) SDK Released

AMD’s Core Math Library (ACML 6 GA) is now available as a production SDK, as announced in this blog post. This is the first version of ACML that supports heterogeneous computing, leveraging the open source clMathLibraries projects as a compute backend “offloading significant computation to OpenCL devices”. […]

2018-03-28T18:41:50+01:00June 26th, 2014|Amd, Blog, Libraries|

Parallel programming with OpenCL and Python

Tiago over at http://www.nehalemlabs.net/ has posted four articles on his "little corner of the internet" covering the use of OpenCL via Python. Parallel programming with opencl and python Parallel programming with opencl and python: vectors and concurrency Parallel programming with opencl and python: parallel reduce Parallel programming with opencl and python: parallel scan

2014-06-24T08:42:06+01:00June 24th, 2014|Blog|

AMD Announce FirePro W8100 – 8 GB GDDR5, 4.2 TFLOPS

AMD have launched the AMD FirePro™ W8100 professional graphics card based on their second generation Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. "Powered by OpenCL", the AMD FirePro W8100 is designed for the next generation of 4K CAD (Computing Aided Design) and Media and Entertainment (M&E) workflows, engineering analysis and supercomputing applications. The AMD FirePro W8100 features [...]

2018-03-28T18:39:53+01:00June 24th, 2014|Amd, Blog|

Intel Tutorial: Getting Started with OpenCL on Android

A new Intel tutorial (May 2014) provides guidelines on using OpenCL in Android applications. The tutorial is an interactive image processing application with the main focus being to show how to use OpenCL in an Android application, how to start writing OpenCL code, and how to link to OpenCL runtime. The tutorial shows a typical [...]

2015-10-27T09:47:29+01:00June 12th, 2014|Blog, Intel, Tutorials|

GPU-Accelerated Dynamic Functional Connectivity Analysis for Functional MRI Data Using OpenCL

Abstract: Intense computations in engineering and science, especially bioinformatics have been made practical by the recent advances in Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) computing technology. In this study, implementation and performance evaluations for a GPU-accelerated dynamic functional connectivity (DFC) analysis, which is an analysis method for investigating dynamic interactions among different brain networks, is presented. [...]

2018-03-28T18:39:47+01:00June 10th, 2014|Blog, Technical Articles|

Lumaforge on 4K workflows with OpenCL

At the recent NABShow Neil Smith from LumaForge talked to James Mathers of the Digital Cinema Society about 4k workflows using OpenCL & GPU's and in particular the AMD FirePro W9100. Jim's summary is "for me now, 4K, 5K, 6K for anyone shooting in raw you've got to leverage the power of OpenCL & GPU [...]

2014-06-05T09:11:40+01:00April 15th, 2014|Amd, Blog|

Paper: Accelerating Java on Embedded GPU

In a recent masters thesis, Iype P. Joseph of the University of Ottawa looked at Accelerating Java on Embedded GPU. His experiments were conducted on a Freescale i.MX6Q SabreLite board which encompasses a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU and a Vivante GC 2000 GPU that supports the OpenCL 1.1 Embedded Profile.  They  successfully accelerated Java code [...]

2018-03-28T18:39:42+01:00April 10th, 2014|Blog, Freescale, Papers|
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