Our OpenCLCodeChecker editor is designed to allow developers to compile their OpenCL C99 code without having to compile the entire code, for convenience. It has been updated to incorporate some useful features:
- Added status bar to show line and column number - Select all with Ctrl+A - Fixed some _native and _half function typos
Altera announced early access to their FPGA program. At this point, however, it seems to be limited to a very specific group through courses. We hope the framework is made publicly available soon and that it enables the construction of embedded FPGA systems using OpenCL as the programming language. In any event, we at CMSoft hope this initiative will motivate many other hardware manufacturers to adopt OpenCL as mainstream language for parallel processing.
SIGGRAPH 2012 is approaching and, for the second year, we'll be there to exchange ideas about parallel computing and OpenCL, as well as check up on the latest technologies which will be presented in the most important conference of computer graphics. Khronos Group has Birds of a Feather events which are the perfect meeting spot for OpenCL programmers and adopters.
We look forward to meeting everyone interested in exchanging ideas about parallel processing, technology or just to chat about life =]; feel free to
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We have updated OpenCLTemplate to support variable type Short Integer (short) and some other data types.
We're preparing a tutorial series about how to transfer data from Kinect for Windows to OpenCL devices and manipulate the information using parallel processing, stay tuned.
Case study: heat transfer simulation using OpenCL OpenGL interop
Heat transfer and, more generally, parabolic partial differential equations are a very important class of problems in physics and mathematics. Analytic solutions aren't available for real-world problems where initial and boundary conditions can be arbitrary.
CMSoft presents video tutorials and source code with detailed information about how to create the CLGL shared context, use OpenCL to accelerate the simulation of heat transfer and share an OpenGL texture to present the results to the user.
This is an example of the video tutorials to come should our user community show interest (in our poll, left menu) to watch a complete series of video tutorials. Otherwise we'll concentrate our efforts and time on striving to create high-quality code content with online text explanation.
