PEANUT (ParallEl AligNment UTility) is an OpenCL based read mapper for DNA or RNA sequence reads. Read mapping is the process of aligning biological DNA or RNA sequencing reads to a known reference genome. By exploiting the massive parallelism of modern graphics processors and a novel index datastructure, the authors say PEANUT achieves supreme sensitivity and [...]
Tom Gall has posted the latest updates to his work on using OpenCL to accelerate SQLite on ARM Mali. In the article Tom details the code used and shows that early benchmarking appears to show a 2.56x to 20.54x performance improvement when using OpenCL for queries compared to the standard C API. He also comments on performance tuning for [...]
The team at Pathea Games have confirmed that their latest early access game ‘Planet Explorers’ is using OpenCL to calculate the voxels. “Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any [...]
The latest release of AllegroLayout plugin for Cytoscape 3.x is now available claiming improved layout quality and support for OpenCL instead of Nvidia CUDA. Meaning it can now support any OpenCL GPUs (Intel, Nvidia, AMD) and CPUs (intel, AMD) and leading to OpenCL-accelerated Layout that is 10x ~ 100x Faster. The AllegroLayout plugin is a high-speed and high-quality graph layout [...]
Check out the Frederic Lardinois article on WebCL over at Techcrunch following his Interview with Neil Trevett, one of the keynote presenters at this years IWOCL. “As Neil Trevett, the chair of the WebCL working group (and Khronos’ president and NVIDIA’s VP for mobile content), told me earlier this week, he expects that once browser [...]
Intel has released a promotional video in support of OpenCL and all that it can do for heterogeneous computing. "You can use your CPU for this, your graphics processor for that, your co-processors over here, your DSP, ... you get the idea." It's great to see Intel supporting OpenCL in this way to its customers. Vincent [...]
INVITED BLOG ENTRY : Imagination is delighted to be the platinum sponsor for the 2nd edition of the IWOCL conference. The 2014 event brings together leading OpenCL developers, passionate users, respected members of academia, and worldwide vendors – all under the same roof in the UK, a hotbed for the GPU compute community. Imagination Technologies designed [...]
IWOCL is looking for submissions from industry experts and academia in all topics related to OpenCL, including but not limited to: application development from any discipline, algorithms, performance analysis, tools and libraries, optimization, verification, portability and education. IWOCL 2014 particularly solicits papers on embedded computing with OpenCL. Submit Your Abstract Now “IWOCL 2014 provides an [...]
The website has now been refreshed in preparation for IWOCL 2014, which will take place in Bristol, England between 12-13 May 2014.