David Kanter has written an excellent primer on OpenCL in the Real World Technologies blog: The goals for OpenCL are deceptively simple: a cross-platform API and ecosystem for applications to take ...

OpenCL is a low-level language for heterogeneous computing. There are 2 key words here: low level: Programmer has the control (and have to) on details on things like a memory allocation, memory ...

To use OpenCL, we must understand how OpenCL abstracts the real world devices so that we can program with it. The OpenCL standard had a bad choice of words that overlaps other things. For example, ...

This chapter introduces a programming model called Open Computing Language (OpenCL). It emphasizes OpenCL for the KeyStone rather than other devices. The main idea for writing an OpenCL application is ...

A new whitepaper by Intel’s Vinay Awasthi describes the status of the company’s OpenCL implementation and available tools for developers using the Intel OpenCL SDK. The Intel implementation is the ...