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OpenCL itself is kinda fine, but the libraries never existed because every academic from postdoc up could get a free NVidia card. You literally filled a form ou

OpenCL itself is kinda fine, but the libraries never existed because every academic from postdoc up could get a free NVidia card. You literally filled a form out and they sent you it.

dagmx 2y ago
I agree the library situation for OpenCL never stood up. Khronos tried at the start but then lost steam. It’s one of the projects I think the Khronos group mishandled the most unfortunately.
- DeathArrow 2y ago
  Do they have a project that achieved success?
  - echoangle 2y ago
    OpenGL, Vulkan, WebGL?
  - dagmx 2y ago
    Here’s a list of projects https://www.khronos.org/ https://www.khronos.org/ If I were to categorize the successful ones: glTF, KTX, SPIR-V, OpenGL and its variants, WebGL People will say Vulkan but it has the same level of adoption as OpenCL, and has the same issue that it competes against vendor specific APIs (DX and Metal) that are just better to use. It’s still used though of course as a translation target but imho that doesn’t qualify it as a success. OpenCL was and is a failure of grand magnitude. As was colada.