A GPGPU standard June 18, 2008
Posted by James Webster in : tech , trackbackAccording to AppleInsider the OpenCL technology announced as part of the WWDC Snow Leopard preview may be adopted as a standard:
Apple has signed on to an industry-wide alliance that will see many companies, including some of the Mac maker’s processor and video card suppliers, work together to develop an open format for accelerating specialized computing.
This is hopefully good news for anyone keen on making an investment in technology such as NVidia’s Tesla. Intel, NVidia, AMD and other have signed up to the newly formed Compute Working Group. At the moment these GPGPU’s all have to be programmed in different languages (generally based on C). Within investment banking, the availability of a standard language for targeting any GPGPU platform will make it much more attractive for quants to write their analytics to run on such a device. To paraphrase a former colleague: ‘Why mess around with a grid when you have a supercomputer sitting on your desk?’.
Hopefully someone will devise a way to have F# code run on such devices as well.
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