{"id":11454,"date":"2009-09-29T02:58:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T02:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=11454"},"modified":"2009-09-29T02:58:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T02:58:47","slug":"nvidia-first-to-deliver-public-opencl-gpu-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/nvidia-first-to-deliver-public-opencl-gpu-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia first to deliver public OpenCL GPU drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the ever ongoing tussle between Nvidia and AMD\/ATI to deliver better gaming hardware, software plays a big part too. The right driver software can increase or decrease performance and help outrun the competition. Then delivering new features through software can have a greatly sway the consumer\u2019s decision while buying a new video card. OpenCL is the set to be the hottest kid in town by allowing heterogeneous computing (CPU+GPU) allowing to tap the massive parallel computing power hidden in current and future video cards. <\/p>\n<p>The Santa Clara company has earned the distinction of being the first to deliver OpenCL v1.0-compliant drivers for both Windows and Linux. Also released is the OpenCL Visual Profiler, a tool which offers developers with insight into performance bottlenecks and opportunities for optimization. The OCL VP has support for all CUDA-ready GPUs and features:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Profiling of actual hardware signals, kernel efficiency, and instruction issue rate      <br \/>&#8211; Timing of memory copies between system memory and GPU dedicated memory       <br \/>&#8211; Customizable graphs to help developers focus in on problem areas       <br \/>&#8211; Basic auto-analysis to reveal warp serialization problems       <br \/>&#8211; Easy import\/export to CSV for custom analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The drivers can be grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/object\/opencl-download.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/object\/opencl-download.html', 'http:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/object\/opencl-download.html']);\" title=\"http:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/object\/opencl-download.html\">http:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/object\/opencl-download.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ever ongoing tussle between Nvidia and AMD\/ATI to deliver better gaming hardware, software plays a big part too. The right driver software can increase or decrease performance and help outrun the competition.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[249,121,1966,478],"class_list":["post-11454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gpu","tag-nvidia","tag-opencl","tag-video-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}