Khronos Group has announced that Vulkan has become the world's first graphics API with a formal memory model. "A memory model, or memory consistency model, for a programming language describes how threads in a parallel processing system can access shared data and synchronize with each other...
Khronos Group has released version 1.1 of Vulkan to the wild and it contains some interesting improvements over the previous version. According to Khronos, developers wanted subgroup operations and now they have them. If I understand subgroup operations correctly these operations should help...
Only in Windows 10, is of course used in the same way as "new CPU's will only work in Windows 10." In other words, Windows 10 is the only Windows OS to get mGPU support in Vulkan, due to this feature depending on WDDM 2.0, available in Windows 10 only. Linux and potentially other open source...
The Khronos™ Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, today announced a call for participation in a new initiative to define a cross-vendor, royalty-free, open standard for access to modern virtual reality (VR) devices. The rapid growth of the virtual reality market...