OpenCL v1.2 enables GPU partitioning, support for DSPs, enhanced OpenGL & DirectX integration

The Khronos Group today announced the public release of OpenCL 1.2.  The new release adds many new features including the ability to partition a device (i.e. a GPU) into sub-devices to allocate resources to high priority/latency-sensitive tasks, or effectively use shared hardware resources such as a cache. It also adds integration with specialized or non-programmable hardware and associated firmware, such as video encoder/decoders and digital signal processor.

AMD has been the leader driving OpenCL as a cross-vendor, non-proprietary solution for accelerating applications on CPU, GPUs and APUs. Congratulations on the release of v1.2 which will offer better performance and more flexibility for heterogeneous computing and multi-core architectures.