Nvidia adds OpenCL to GPU computing toolkit
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 9, 2008 at 7:00pm
Nvidia has announced its full support for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from the Khronos Group. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a new compute API (application programming interface) that allows developers to harness the parallel computing power of the GPU (graphical processing unit).
”The arrival of OpenCL is fabulous news for the computing industry and NVIDIA is delighted to be playing a highly active role in the establishment of a new standard that promotes computing on the GPU,” says Manju Hegde of Nvidia. “We are delighted that Apple has helped spearhead OpenCL. Their recognition that the GPU will now play an essential role in consumer applications is a significant milestone in the history of computing.”
The OpenCL specification is a result of a clearly recognized opportunity from leaders like Nvidia to grow the total market for heterogeneous parallel computing through an open, cross-platform standard, he adds. “Nvidia will continue to be very active in the OpenCL working group to drive the evolution of the specification and will support OpenCL on all its platforms, providing developers an additional way to tap into the awesome computational power of our GPUs,” Hedge says.
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