Codeplay recently published the first in a series of blog posts that will be released to help develop a better understanding of exactly what SYCL is, how it works and how C++ and OpenCL™ developers can benefit from it. Specifically the blog provides a more detailed description of the main features of SYCL by answering frequently [...]
Imagination’s have announced that their PowerVR Series6 is the first mobile GPU to pass OpenCL 1.2 conformance. PowerVR Series6 primarily targets the OpenCL 1.2 EP (Embedded Profile) specification, enabling developers to take full advantage of the rich capabilities in OpenCL 1.2 within the constraints of mobile and embedded form factors. Peter McGuinness, director of multimedia [...]
Interview with David Kaeli, co-author of Heterogeneous Computing with OpenCL, conducted during Code Generation Optimization 2014 in Orlando, Florida. In this quick conversation, Dave discusses changes in the upcoming OpenCL 2.0 edition of the book, coming Fall 2014.
Sam Blinstein from Vanguard Video talked to Intel at Mobile World Congress earlier this year about their advanced codec solutions and the transition to the new H.265 standard. Sam discussed the Vanguard hybrid encoder demo, which is built on Intel technology and uses OpenCL to massively parallelize and accelerate tasks in the encoding process, helping [...]
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 [...]