Ed wrote: "If you want some further evidence, take a look at the membership of Kronos committees. The research and education communities are almost totally unrepresented on any of them and they are the ones that are setting the standards that will determine the next generation of hardware and software."
Sure nVidia implements OpenCL, but they do it just to check the box off. Their real investment is in CUDA. I'd say they participate to just give the appearance of being good citizens in the standardization process. I claim for such a company the standards are pursued when they serve to fight a larger monopoly, and they get minimal investment when it doesn't serve their purposes. For example, for a while AMD used OpenCL to discriminate themselves from nVidia (the little guy in *that* example). If the research or education community want to influence GPU technology, they should step up and hack on Mesa. I think the reason that GPU vendors cling so tightly to their driver & compiler software, is because their hardware is not _that_ complex. They don't want smaller players getting their fangs into their very profitable market. Marcus -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web LIVE – Free email based on Microsoft® Exchange technology - http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
