Commenting on: Siggraph Asia 2008 technology highlights

For the professional crowd, SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 was really the happening place to find out the latest on workstation graphics products. Although it is a month past, I thought I would point out some of the interesting stuff shown. If you read Chinese you might also want to check out some of the Asian press (nice graphics if nothing else).

So what was shown of particular interest relevant to workstation graphics?

• The OpenCL announcement for standardized GPGPU computing
• The first demo showcasing OpenCL in action (running one computational task across two or more GPUs)
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