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OpenCL on the Fast Track
Oct 31, 2008
HPCwire has posted a blog on the fast paced OpenCL efforts underway at the Khronos Group. Version 1.0 of OpenCL is currently scheduled to be released in early December at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 in Singapore. “If they succeed, that’s got to be some kind of industry spec development record—basically from prototype to final in 6 months” wrote Michael Feldman, editor of HPCwire. Khronos will be presenting an OpenCL technical briefing and reception at SC08 on Monday, November 17. Anyone who is interested can attended at no charge. Appetizers and cold beer will be provided!
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OpenGL Mathematics (GLM) 0.8.1 released
Oct 31, 2008
The new version of GLM has been released. GLM is a platform independent C++ mathematics library for 3D software based on the OpenGL Shading Language. Furthermore, GLM provides optional extended feature such as quaternion, transformations, matrix inverse, etc. This release has been developed against GLSL 1.3 specification.
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OpenGL Shell v.0.3 available as open source
Oct 31, 2008
OpenGL Shell is an open source and cross-platform OOP-based wrapper around OpenGL and NVIDIA Cg C-based APIs. The goal of wrapper is to provide abstraction over numerous GL calls, window-system differences and GLSL/Cg shaders. With wrapper it is possible to write managed code, using smart pointers to avoid memory leaks, which impossible with ‘pure’ OpenGL. Now library supports OS Windows XP/Vista and Linux as well.
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Cg Toolkit 2.1 Released
Oct 30, 2008
The Cg Toolkit provides a free cross-platform shading language compiler and runtime API for programmable shading. Write your shader once and deploy it to any API or platform. Cg Toolkit compiles Cg shaders and CgFX effects to OpenGL assembly extensions, GLSL, DirectX 9 assembly, HLSL9, and DirectX 10’s HLSL10. Cg Toolkit supports Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris.
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Voreen Volume Rendering Engine 1.5 available as open source - uses OpenGL and GLSL
Oct 30, 2008
The Voreen 1.5 volume rendering engine is now available as open source. Voreen exploits OpenGL as well as GLSL to allow easy and flexible high-performance volume ray-casting on the GPU. Results and programming tutorials available on the website. The goal of the Voreen project is to develop an open source volume rendering engine which allows interactive visualization of volumetric data sets by allowing high flexibility when integrating new visualization techniques.
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NVIDIA posts NVISION 2008 presentations on OpenGL, OpenGL 3.0, Cg, and CUDA
Oct 30, 2008
NVIDIA has posted slides from the joint NVISION 2008 presentations on OpenGL, OpenGL 3.0, Cg, and CUDA. This four part set covers OpenGL and the Future, GeForce 8 Features for OpenGL, Cg 2.1 - “C for Graphics” for All 3D APIs and Platforms and finally OpenGL and CUDA. The presentation was made by Michael Gold, Mark Kilgard, and Barthold Lichtenbelt of NVIDIA.
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Tribal Trouble 2 now browser based hardware accelerated using OpenGL
Oct 29, 2008
The sequel of the cross-platform OpenGL based RTS game Tribal Trouble has been transformed into a game that launches directly from the browser. While taking advantage of the extensive possibilities of a browser for displaying all the quests, missions and expansions, the game doesn’t settle for traditional flash-style gaming integrated in the website, but launches a fully hardware accelerated 3D window using OpenGL, in fullscreen. A standard Java browser plugin is required as our implementation uses the Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL).
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OpenCL Technical briefing and Reception at SC08
Oct 28, 2008
OpenCL is an open, royalty-free standard being created by the Khronos Group for programming heterogeneous parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs. OpenCL is being driven by industry-leading companies including AMD, Apple, ARM, Codeplay, Ericsson, Freescale, Imagination Technologies, IBM, Intel, Nokia, NVIDIA, Motorola, RapidMind and Texas Instruments. This informal gathering will provide one of the first opportunities for the HPC community to gain an insight into the architecture and direction of this exciting development. Please register early as seating is limited - we look forward to seeing you in Austin!
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Ogre Technologies announces Glux - an OpenGL Utility & Auxiliary Library
Oct 28, 2008
Ogre Technologies has announced Glux; The OpenGL Utility & Auxiliary Library. It aims to be a more up-to-date replacement for Glux. It is also written in C++, making it not accessible for C users, however. Ogre Technologies mentions that Glux is in a very early stage and only has support for Windows at this time, but will support other OS’ (such as Linux, Mac OS, Mac OS X, ...) in the future. Glux should take care of windowing in your OpenGL applications and also offers some extra functions.
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Intel and Yahoo Widget Channel STB based on OpenGL 2.0 technology
Oct 27, 2008
IDF in Taipei showed first working demo of Intel’s and Yahoo’s efforts on the Widget Channel front. On display during the keynote was a set-top-box made by GIGABYTE. This box is capable of playing back both 720p and 1080p video with its onboard H.264, VC-1 and MPEG2 hardware decoder. Its GUI is based on OpenGL ES 2.0 technology.
