Commenting on: The important thing to note about OpenCL

Yesterday I posted a video showing OpenCL scaling across 24 CPU cores.  The same demo was actually being shown at SIGGRAPH scaling across 12 CPU cores.  We got a capture of the demo, but the most important thing about it is the section where the presenter explains about why OpenCL is is so significant and why AMD is showing it running on the CPU and not just talking about running it on the GPU (like everyone else). OpenCL lets you write data-parallel algorithms data-parallel processing (for scientific computations, video and image processing, game AI and physics, etc.) that spread…