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Idea #14344: adopt opencl for the graphics layer in Ubuntu

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #16362: Implement support for OpenCL API.
Written by pyrates the 13 Oct 08 at 00:28. Category: Graphics. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Since OS X and Nvidia are both pledging support for opencl, I think Ubuntu should too. This way it is less work on the developer when creating an application that needs to use the hardware acceleration that the video card provides if it supports opencl.

UPDATE: OpenCL in draft format http://digg.com/apple/Apple_s_OpenCL_standard_near_complete_in_just_six_months

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Written by pyrates the 13 Oct 08 at 00:28.
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neon wrote on the 13 Oct 08 at 01:37
er...do you mean OpenGL?

neon wrote on the 13 Oct 08 at 01:50
or, if not, could you post what you do mean? I've never heard of opencl.

Remco wrote on the 13 Oct 08 at 02:03
OpenCL doesn't exist yet. It's supposed to make programming for the GPU and other highly parallelized hardware more flexible than OpenGL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL

kazagistar wrote on the 13 Oct 08 at 03:24
Way too secretive and proprietary looking, IMHO.

vexorian wrote on the 13 Oct 08 at 15:30
If this is truly open, then Linux will most likely HAVE to support it, else it would be an irrelevant attempt at replacing directx and well, it wouldn't matter that much for Linux we would be screwed either way.

skelley wrote on the 23 Nov 08 at 20:49
OpenCL is not closed, just like OpenGL. SGI created OpenGL internally, just like Apple did with OpenCL. In fact, Apple turned OpenCL over to the Khronos Group, the same group that oversees OpenGL.

AndrewLuecke wrote on the 24 Nov 08 at 00:11
OpenCL has NOTHING to do with directX.. OpenGL is for graphics, OpenCL is more for performing computations on the GPU/CPU.

Although you can do maths with opengl too, its not ideal.

loneowais wrote on the 5 Jan 09 at 10:47
This will make Ubuntu perform much faster


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