The folks from Altera have just announced a development program focused on the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) standard for FPGAs and SoC FPGAs(see also OpenCL gets upgrade, Altera tips FPGA tool).

I thought that this was one of the major selling points of Snow Leopard but it seems that after SL started shipping, Steve jobs focused his hype elsewhere. I cant seem find any apps using this ...

Though the “techlectic” SC08 crowd at Austin’s Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant Monday night was thirsty for cold beer and hungry for nachos and quesadillas, they were equally famished for information on ...

The initial era of programmable technologies contained two different extremes of programmability. One extreme was the single-core CPU and DSP units. These were programmable using software consisting ...

The Khronos Group is moving ahead with OpenCL 3.0... by making everything in OCL 2.x optional and going back to OpenCL 1.2. Bold move. We'll see if it pays off for them. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

OpenCL, created to support parallel programming in Apple's Snow Leopard operating system, may become the new world standard for parallel programming on all platforms. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer ...

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My 4850 just isn't cutting it anymore. It's running hot whether it's idle or not (3x the idle powerdraw of the newer ATi GPUs that are 3x as fast), it sucks at OpenCL, being barely faster than the CPU ...