Cross-platform interest in WebCL is expanding with support for Firefox, Chrome as well as Safari. WebCL provides a tremendous opportunity to exploit parallelism on client-side machines. Thanks for to Antonio Gomes (Twitter @tonikitoo) who brought the Safari webkit-webcl implementation to our attention! The SMAST Computational Laboratory (CMLab) at the School for Marine … [Read more...]
Proof-of-Concept WebCL Chrome Browser Available from AMD
AMD has been working on implementing WebCL inside a Chrome browser to enable web programmer's access to OpenCL acceleration plus WebCL and WebGL interoperability. (Firefox, Chrome and Safari all have some form of WebCL support.) The following video shows the potential: http://youtu.be/dGD9NpipcrE Hands on experience can be found through the Chromium-WebCL github project, … [Read more...]
WebCL 1.0 specification released
We all know that browser accelerated 3D graphics are coming and that this technology solution - however instantiated - is going to be a tremendous money maker. WebCL is a technology to watch for browser accelerated 3D graphics. The release of the webCL 1.0 specification is the latest evolution in the Khrnos effort to bring 3D browser acceleration to the Internet. WebCL 1.0 … [Read more...]