The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) approved my project proposal entitled "3D Solution of the Boltzmann Equation on Supercomputers". This project will fund my scientific work for three more years, with prospective start in mid 2017. Here is a brief summary of what this project is about. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Three Suggestions for Improving OpenCL for Library Developers
OpenCL is not (yet) a success story in high performance computing. More researchers are drawn towards NVIDIA's CUDA, harvesting a richer toolchain and ease of getting started. A vendor-lock seems to be less a concern for my colleagues, even though I do not agree as somebody who is paid from public money.
Anyway, this blog post is not yet-another-OpenCL-vs-CUDA discussion. Instead, it provides three suggestions on how OpenCL could become more attractive for software library developers to grow the OpenCL library ecosystem. Only if OpenCL libraries provide 90+ percent of the functionality a user needs, the user will be willing to spend the time on getting the remaining percent (if any) done. Continue reading