OpenCL – the open, royalty-free standard for parallel processing across collections of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, and other silicon – was further detailed, discussed, and demoed during the run-up to the Multicore Expo, which opens Tuesday in Santa Clara, California. A developers’ tutorial was hosted Monday by Neal Trevett, Nvidia’s VP of mobile content, who’s also the president of the Khronos Group, the industry consortium that’s shepherding the OpenCL standard.
Nvidia Pitches OpenCL as ‘Market Builder’
March 17, 2009