Hi On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Thibault Imbert <timb...@adobe.com> wrote:
> > Yes, leveraging multicore and the power of GPUs for general computations > is great and very powerful but first, securing such kernels is hard, and > authoring these would be pretty brutal to most web developers, I think this > is what Benjamin was referring to. > > With WebCL, you are basically writing C style kernels that you load and > run to drive the computations, initiatives like RiverTrail are more > restrictive but way more approachable and closer to the web, exposing > higher level primitives on top of WebCL (ParallelArray for example) and > integrated at the language level, which makes a lot of sense. > > Security is a primary goal of WebCL, and both WebCL and OpenCL working groups are working together to ensure a safe parallel programming environment to the Web, as you can see in [1]. If you have specific concerns, please raise it in the Khronos working group mailing list ([2]) or file a bug ([3]) against the draft spec. [1] https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webcl/spec/latest/index.html#4 [2] http://www.khronos.org/webcl/public-mailing-list/ [3] https://www.khronos.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=WebCL
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