Questions tagged [opencl]

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Incorporating existing 2D OpenCL/OpenGL application in 3D scene

There is an existing real-time, scientific visualization application that uses OpenCL and OpenGL to render complex 2D graphs. My goal is to incorporate this application into a 3D rendered scene. At the very minimum, the desired application would…
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How do you manage your OpenCL source?

I am having a hard time deciding how I should manage my OpenCL source code so that my program can compile it at runtime. There seem to be two many strategies. You can create them in you C source as strings (I really don't like this approach since…
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Must OpenCL code be compiled for a specific GPU?

Most OpenCL Tutorials give a nice introduction to OpenCL, yet I have not found information on the question of interoperability of the compilation targets. It seems that I have to compile OpenCL code for the target GPU. Now when making a binary…
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What is OpenCL?

I've been looking around, but I'm still not sure on the what OpenCL is. Other than multi processor stuff... Is it another graphics API like OpenGL and DirectX? Or something that works alongside OpenGL? I'm planning on learning OpenGL soon (with java…
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