OpenCL: The Open Standard for Parallel Programming of GPUs and Multi-core CPUs

OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is the first truly open and royalty-free programming standard for general-purpose computations on heterogeneous systems. OpenCL allows programmers to preserve their expensive source code investment and easily target both multi-core CPUs and the latest GPUs, such as those from AMD.

Developed in an open standards committee with representatives from major industry vendors, OpenCL gives users what they have been demanding: a cross-vendor, non-proprietary solution for accelerating their applications on their CPU and GPU cores.

AMD, an early supporter of OpenCL, and leading innovator and provider of high-performance CPUs and GPUs, is uniquely positioned in this industry to offer a complete acceleration platform for OpenCL.

• A Brief History of General Purpose GPU (GPGPU) Computing
• An Introduction to OpenCL

For more information on OpenCL, please visit The Khronos Group - OpenCL Overview Page: http://www.khronos.org/opencl/.

For more information on ATI Stream, please visit our website: http://www.amd.com/stream.