OpenCL 1.1 Specification Released

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The Khronos™ Group today announced the ratification and public release of the OpenCL™ 1.1 specification, the latest version of the open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors. OpenCL 1.1 provides enhanced performance and functionality for parallel programming in a backwards compatible specification that is the result of cooperation between industry-leading companies.

OpenCL working group members include: AMD, Apple, ARM, Blizzard Activision, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, Graphic Remedy, IBM, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Kestrel Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Movidia, Nokia, NVIDIA, Petapath, Presagis, Qualcomm, Renesas, S3 Graphics, Seaweed Systems, Sony, ST-Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Symbian, and Texas Instruments. Today Khronos also announced the release of a C++ wrapper API for use with OpenCL, and the immediate availability of OpenCL 1.1 conformance tests.The OpenCL 1.1 specifications, online reference pages and reference cards are available at www.khronos.org/opencl/.
 
Nice....time to do some reading. Not sure if I am ready to ditch cuda, but this seems to have a lot of support.
 
so how long do u guys give it before CUDA tanks and nvidia gets onboard with this one?
 
so how long do u guys give it before CUDA tanks and nvidia gets onboard with this one?
LOL nvidia had initial (4 months before) and final OpenCL 1.0 drivers one month before AMD did. AMD still only ships OpenCL support in a separate Stream SDK 2.0 download. nvidia has included OpenCL support inside the release drivers for over half a year.

And anyways, OpenCL is largely based on CUDA. Apple organized the submission through Khronos with input from several companies, but most of the CUDA foundation survives intact apart from some name changes.
 
would be nice to see NERO on that list and any other video encoders...
 
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