OpenCL 1.1 Specification Released by Khronos
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We just got word from the Khronos Group this morning regarding the release of OpenCL 1.1, the latest version of the open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, programming of parallel processors. We have been told that with this release, NVIDIA has achieved another milestone in OpenCL support as it is the first to have the OpenCL 1.1 driver available on its website for the immediate download of thousands of registered GPU Computing developers.
OpenCL 1.1 adds significant functionality for enhanced parallel programming flexibility, functionality and performance including:
- New data types including 3-component vectors and additional image formats;
- Handling commands from multiple hosts and processing buffers across multiple devices;
- Operations on regions of a buffer including read, write and copy of 1D, 2D or 3D rectangular regions;
- Enhanced use of events to drive and control command execution;
- Additional OpenCL C built-in functions such as integer clamp, shuffle and asynchronous strided copies;
- Improved OpenGL interoperability through efficient sharing of images and buffers by linking OpenCL and OpenGL events.
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