OpenCL and Heterogenous Computing advances
OpenCL and Heterogenous Computing advances This article concerns AMD OpenCL and Heterogenous Computing, which have reached a new level. Here, Benedict R. Gaster talks about some books that deal with OpenCL and Heterogenous Computing and how that have advanced. This article was originally written at the AMD blog by Benedict R. Gaster. The Open Computing Language (OpenCLTM) is already in its second revision, OpenCL 1.1, but until last week where could you turn to get a book covering the specifications? The answer to this was none, but all this has changed with the introduction of Addison-Wesley’s “OpenCL Programming Guide”, which is a book covering the whole of OpenCL 1.1, written by the people who developed the specification, including Aaftab Munshi, the specification editor and its original designer. This is all very exciting, as it not only comes at a time when OpenCL applications are appearing in earnest, but also when with the release of Apple’s latest OS X, named Lion, comes with s...