[November 17, 2009] Khronos Demos OpenCL Momentum at SC09 Tweet Nov 18, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- The Khronos Group, an industry consortium with more than 100 members working together to create open standards for authoring, accelerating and accessing visual computing, announced a wide range of shipping products utilizing OpenCL at SC09 (an international conference for high-performance computing). A number of demonstrations and tutorials from Khronos Group members highlighted what the group termed the power and scalability of OpenCL as a major part of SC09. OpenCL is the open, royalty-free standard for general-purpose parallel programming across CPUs, GPUs and other processors. OpenCL provides software developers portable and efficient access to the full power of a wide range of systems including high-performance compute servers, desktop computer systems and handheld devices. Khronos released a conformance suite for the OpenCL 1.0 specification in May that exhaustively tests both the functionality and numerical accuracy of OpenCL implementations before they are licensed to use the OpenCL trademark. A number of shipping products from working group members have successfully passed OpenCL conformance including products from AMD, Apple and Nvidia. "By enabling cross-platform development for heterogeneous architectures, OpenCL is helping to bring GPU compute capability to mainstream applications," said Patricia Harrell, director of stream computing at AMD. "AMD fully supports the advantages of industry standard development through its ATI Stream SDK v2.0, an OpenCL 1.0 compliant solution for both ATI GPUs and x86 CPUs." "Nvidia cares deeply about ensuring that OpenCL developers have the tools they need to easily develop and deploy mainstream applications on more than 150 million Nvidia OpenCL 1.0-capable GPUs," said Sanford Russell, general manager, GPU Computing software at Nvidia. "Our latest R195 driver provides the industry's most complete support for OpenCL 1.0 with NVIDIA's OpenCL Visual Profiler and new OpenCL extensions including double precision, ICD and imaging. We are very excited about the increased momentum that OpenCL is creating behind GPU Computing." The membership of the Khronos OpenCL working group has grown steadily since the release of the OpenCL 1.0 specification, with a diversity of companies helping to evolve and support the specification. Membership in the OpenCL working group now includes thirty-three market representatives: Activision Blizzard, AMD, Apple, ARM, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, Fujitsu, GE, Graphic Remedy, HI, IBM, Intel, Imagination Technologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Motorola, Movidia, Nokia, Nvidia, Petapath, Presagis, QNX, Qualcomm, S3, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Takumi, Texas Instruments (TI), Toshiba, Vivante, and ZiiLABS (formerly 3DLABS). ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]