Is there any further news about OpenCL being supported on Solaris? It really seems like this will be a must-have API for many scientific workloads in the near future.
My uninformed impression is that like OpenGL, specific drivers will need to be developed for GPUs but for processors the interface may be more generic. If this is the case, I at least hope there are some GPUs that will be supported by OpenCL in Solaris. My thesis project may be contingent on some rather intensive simulation, so I'll be looking for the cheapest option if so (it would be cool if Sun had such solutions available in the near future). At the same time, I'd want to write it in a an API that will be universal and well-supported down the road, and it looks like OpenCL was built for this. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
