OpenCL Overview 
          November 2011 
         Agenda 
         • OpenCL in context 
         • OpenCL Overview 
         • Next steps for OpenCL 
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             Processor Parallelism 
                                         CPUs                                              GPUs 
                                  Multiple cores driving        Emerging             Increasingly general 
                                  performance increases        Intersection          purpose data-parallel 
                                                                                          computing 
                                          Multi-            Heterogeneous                    Graphics 
                                       processor               Computing                     APIs and 
                                     programming                                              Shading 
                                    – e.g. OpenMP                                           Languages 
           OpenCL is a programming framework for heterogeneous compute resources 
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         OpenCL Working Group Members 
         • Diverse industry participation – many industry experts 
            - Processor vendors, system OEMs, middleware vendors, application developers 
            - Academia and research labs, FPGA vendors 
         • NVIDIA is chair, Apple is specification editor 
                               Apple 
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