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AMD Fusion Developers Summit call for heterogeneous computing proposals
Dec 14, 2010
In June 2011, developers, academics, industry leaders, and emerging innovators will convene in Bellevue, Washington at the inaugural AMD Fusion Developer Summit to learn about the AMD Fusion APU and the potential market opportunities it presents. AMD invites pioneers in heterogeneous computing to share their work and research findings in the form of presentations, technical papers, or reports with this influential community. Deadline for submissions is February 4th 2011.
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Khronos Group prepares for SIGGRAPH ASIA 2010 DevU
Dec 14, 2010
The Khronos Group is hosting a Khronos Developer University co-located with SIGGRAPH Asia. Numerous Khronos members have joined together with each member taking a demonstration suite to create a large number of exciting demos in the Khronos Pavilion on the SIGGRAPH trade show floor. On December 17th Rightware is sponsoring a Beer and Demo Social. Complete dates, and schedules are available on the Khronos website. The Khronos Group has just wrapped up very successful events in Beijing and Tokyo.
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OpenGL Code Samples (December 2010) released
Dec 14, 2010
Fourteen modern OpenGL code samples have been released. From Triangle to Volumetric Ray Casting all written using only non-deprecated functionality.
ShaderToyMark 0.2.0 available with better SLI and CrossFire support
Dec 10, 2010
ShaderToyMark is an OpenGL 2 benchmark based on hefty pixel shaders written by demomakers. ShaderToyMark is an application built with the GeeXlab demotool. This new version of ShaderToyMark fixes some mulithreading bugs and brings a better multi-GPU support (SLI and CrossFire). ShaderToyMark is perfect to benchmark the raw power compute of modern GPUs.
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OpenCL on the CPU and why it can be useful
Dec 08, 2010
A few advantages to using OpenCL on the CPU are: results on the CPU for further processing, CPU-code can be mixed with OpenCL and specific algorithms can be processed faster because there is no PCIe-overhead. Streamcomputing has a closer look at at why you may find OpenCL on the CPU useful for your own work.
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gDEBugger is now free
Dec 07, 2010
Looks like the folks at Graphic Remedy have modified their business model, and have made gDEBugger available at no cost. The official free version will be available later this month, and there is currently a modified license that allows you to use the current version right away.
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VR Juggler version 3 released with OpenGL 3 support
Nov 29, 2010
VR Juggler 3 is now available. VR Juggler 3.0 has a totally redesigned cluster infrastructure based on a formal client/server model and support for OpenGL 3.0 contexts as well as many other fixes and updates. VR Juggler provides a platform for virtual reality application development allowing a user to run an application on almost any VR system.
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ATI launches two new OpenGL 4.1 / OpenCL 1.1 ready mobile Radeon series GPUs
Nov 29, 2010
AMD just released Radeon HD 6000-series mobile model GPUs: the Radeon HD 6500M and Radeon HD 6300M. OpenGL 4.1 and OpenCL 1.1 support is included as well as DirectX compatibility.
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DMP announces two new OpenGL ES Programming Courses for January 2011
Nov 26, 2010
DMP is proud to announce two all new OpenGL ES programming training courses. OpenGL ES programming training I and II will run January 13-14 and January 20-21 2010. Complete details are available online for the Training I and Training II courses in english, and in Japanese.
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VGP3 OpenGL racecar simulator
Nov 26, 2010
VGP3 is an advanced racecar simulator with unique physics, advanced AI and both online/offline racing modes. VGP3 is one of the very few commercial sims not Windows-centric, available for Windows and OS X. The 3D engine is based on OpenGL and supports 2.x features such as GLSL, VBOs, FBOs and shadow maps. VGP3 is fully moddable and customizable, file formats are documented, including GLSL code and 3D object/physics config files. Tools such as 3D object converters and track editors are available as well. A demo—freely downloaded without any registration—is available from the VGP3 website!
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Image Processing with OpenGL and Shaders
Nov 24, 2010
A quick how-to on image processing with OpenGL and GLUT. Taking you from video input to final output.
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jMonkeyEngine 3 SDK Alpha3 released - Terrain and Networking now in core
Nov 23, 2010
Advanced OpenGL 2 engine jMonkeyEngine 3 has officially tagged a third ALPHA release ready for download. This release sees many additions like terrain and networking and also jMonkeyPlatform has been improved with many additions and fixes.
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OpenGL Samples Pack 4.1.3.3 released
Nov 22, 2010
OpenGL Samples Pack 4.1.3.3 released with a major update of the CMake project, as well as some code cleaning, a couple of bug fixes and library updates.
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Simple Fluid Simulation
Nov 22, 2010
Philip Rideout’s blog has a new write-up on simple 2D fluid simulation using modern OpenGL. Sample code in C is provided.
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Intel releases OpenCL SDK
Nov 16, 2010
Intel® OpenCL SDK is an implementation of the OpenCL 1.1 standard optimized for Intel® CoreTMprocessors, running on Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Vista operating systems. This Alpha software brings OpenCL for the CPU in support of OpenCL developers desiring CPU advantages found on many OpenCL workloads. OpenCL language and Application Programming Interface (API) enables you to seamlessly take advantage of the Intel® CoreTM processor benefits such as Intel® Streaming SIMD Extensions (Intel® SSE) utilization and Multi-Core scalability.
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