> Looks like an effort to head off OpenCL, which is already multi-platform,
> i.e. the same binary runs on Nvidia and ATI/AMD GPUs and Intel and AMD
> multicore CPUs depending on the hardware available.
>
Surely not same binary.
Probably a similar code at the origin of the binaries, but I doubt the
same universal code would run on both. You know C++ code depends heavily
on its environment and at some level these will depend on the platform.
> It doesn't really say it is open-source. It says it will be released to
> tool vendors and researchers. One wonders why they would release this so
> AMD could build a backend for it, since nvidia is so far ahead in terms of
> supporting GPU computing. Maybe it *is* to fend of OpenCL...
>
> It's certainly interesting, though! As is LLVM. Thanks for the link.
>
> John
>
Jean
