OpenCL
By Hugo on Sunday, August 10 2008, 01:06 - GPU - Permalink
Hi all,
With almost 2 month late, i would like to point out the great news that OpenCL is :
Right now, the GP/GPU solutions are :
- CUDA for NVidia hardware
- CTM for AMD(ATI) hardware
which is sad for developpers, since we (and by we, I mostly mean I) don't want to have to use 2 APIs, and 2 languages, of different abstraction levels (CUDA is "high" level, where CTM is close to hardware (or to metal in that case \o/))
Considering NVidia goes well with CUDA, we could have bet on CTM death, but what's gonna happen is far better : OpenCL will born "soon", and will provide a unify way to use your GPU's power.
Gigaflop and mass parallel programming, here we are ! (as soon as specification and compiler will be out, which lets us a few years at least)
Let's wish good luck to the Khronos group which have to write the standards !