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Phoronix ^ | July 28, 2010 | Michael Larabel

Posted on 07/28/2010 7:24:36 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Neither. I’m working on doing some scientific computations related to optical stuff. Basically doing a lot of FFTs.


21 posted on 08/03/2010 7:50:23 PM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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Fortran usage in some way?


22 posted on 08/03/2010 8:05:42 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Nope, OpenCL :-)

OpenCL is a new language specification that is a lot like C, but has extra type information to accommodate the fact that the graphics card runs lots of “kernels” and has processor features that can schedule 4 or 5 instructions in one cycle.


23 posted on 08/03/2010 8:13:31 PM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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Well...that is very interesting....

Got any suggestions on where to learn a little on the language?

24 posted on 08/03/2010 8:20:31 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Here’s the main page for OpenCL:

http://www.khronos.org/opencl/

If you have time, these videos are an excellent introduction:
http://www.macresearch.org/opencl_episode1
http://www.macresearch.org/opencl_episode2
http://www.macresearch.org/opencl_episode3
http://www.macresearch.org/opencl_episode4
http://www.macresearch.org/opencl_episode5
http://www.macresearch.org/opencl_episode6


25 posted on 08/03/2010 8:27:10 PM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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Thank you very much....


26 posted on 08/03/2010 8:40:47 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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