AMD has started offering a free OpenCL for CPU beta download as part of its ATI Stream SDK v2.0 Beta Program. AMD (News - Alert) has also submitted conformance logs to the Khronos Working Group for ...

The use of FPGAs in HPC is limited less by the capabilities of current hardware and more by the challenges in programming them without sacrificing performance. Recent work from Boston University has ...

LONDON — Processor chip company Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has submitted details to the Khronos graphics industry group that it states show that its ATI graphics processing unit ...

Apple has touted using the "Power of the GPU" with the OpenCL API, but how does it run in practice? Very few current applications are coded to use Apple's new OpenCL API that is included with Snow ...

Heterogeneous computing refers to a growing class of systems in which an application is executed on a mixture of dissimilar processor and accelerator devices to maximize throughput. The execution of a ...

OpenCL specification, an open industry standard for 3D graphics and computer audio that started as an Apple proposal but has gained many supporters, has been ratified. Brooke Crothers writes about ...