Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: hobold (hobold.delete@this.vectorizer.org), August 3, 2010 3:45 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
mpx (mpx@nomail.pl) on 8/2/10 wrote:
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>That's why OpenCL is important. You can create a program in OpenCL and run it on either GPU or CPU.
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This most compelling advantage is also the major downside: when the software doesn't care which hardware it is running on, few hardware vendors will want to embrace the programming model. Because then they'd have to compete on the basis of actual product quality. To me it seems that Intel, Nvidia, AMD don't really want an even playing field.
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>That's why OpenCL is important. You can create a program in OpenCL and run it on either GPU or CPU.
>
This most compelling advantage is also the major downside: when the software doesn't care which hardware it is running on, few hardware vendors will want to embrace the programming model. Because then they'd have to compete on the basis of actual product quality. To me it seems that Intel, Nvidia, AMD don't really want an even playing field.