Introduction to OpenCL
Abstract
This chapter provides an introduction to the basics of using the OpenCL standard when developing parallel programs. It describes the different abstraction models defined in the standard and also presents a basic example of an OpenCL program to place some of the abstraction in context. It also provides an example of the OpenCL C++ application programming interface.
Keywords
OpenCL
parallel programming
parallel programming abstractions
heterogeneous computing
vector addition
3.1 Introduction
This chapter introduces OpenCL, the programming fabric that will allow us to weave our application to execute concurrently. Programmers familiar with C and C++ should have little trouble understanding the OpenCL ...
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