First OpenCL demo on a GPU

The first public demonstration of OpenCL running on a GPU was done by NVIDIA on December 12, 2008 at Siggraph Asia. The nbody simulation shown was a simulation of massive particles under the influence of physical forces. Nbody simulation is known to be computationally intensive. The demo shows how OpenCL can deliver high performance computing using the parallel cores of the CUDA architecture on NVIDIA GPUs. This demo also illustrates the idea that core computational code can be written in OpenCL and will scale to whatever number of cores are available. The demo shown in Siggraph used the 32 parallel cores available on the NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M GPU that it ran on.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• OpenCL
• CUDA
• GPU
• GPGPU
• Computing
• Physics
• Siggraph
• HPC
• parallel
• NVIDIA
• nbody
• simulation

[HongKongKanto]

stop to flame in nvidias channel

[HongKongKanto]

nvidia release the stuff wich they want than for normal consumers

[MatheusMK3]

O.O

"Laptop with a NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M GPU"

[prankmypants]

where can i download this in a windows exe to run on my gtx470?

[gameswindows]

black hole!!

[neosurrealist]

OpenCL is just a programming language. You can start taking advantage of it if in xcode already you are a developer.

If you are not a dev, then you have to wait for developers to integrate it into programs in order to see performance benefits.

You don't use it like a program, you just reap the performance benefits when developers integrate it.

CS5 apparently will use it for some video rendering and other things.

[maniackorn]

nice

[wildman00sax]

That looks kinda like a galaxy or something in outer space.

[CrusherFTW]

Nice and prolly usefull

[nm835]

It says in the video this is code running on the GPU using the new OpenCL API. I haven't seen any other demo's of OpenCL running on a real GPU - this is pretty cool - when is going to be available?