Altera is looking to put OpenCL (Open Computing Language) into FPGA hardware. This could give GPUs a run for the money when it comes to accelerating parallel processing. It could also increase ...

Altera's SDK for OpenCL is designed to put OpenCL code into an FPGA without requiring any additional FPGA design expertise. Khronos Group's OpenCL has become very popular with GPU platforms and it ...

The folks from Altera have just announced a development program focused on the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) standard for FPGAs and SoC FPGAs(see also OpenCL gets upgrade, Altera tips FPGA tool).

Toward the end of 2011, the folks from Altera announced theindustry's first OpenCL program for FPGAs (Clickhere to see that announcement). Now, they say that goHDR,one of their early customers in the ...

The use of FPGAs in HPC is limited less by the capabilities of current hardware and more by the challenges in programming them without sacrificing performance. Recent work from Boston University has ...

Altera has announced a software development kit (SDK) for OpenCL (Open Computing Language), for use with its FPGA, which combines the parallel architecture of an FPGA with the OpenCL parallel ...

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe explains how OpenCL may make FPGAs an attractive option. In January 2015, FPGAs took a step closer to the mainstream of ...

goHDR Developed an FPGA-based, High-Performance Solution with OpenCL in a Fraction of the Time Compared to Traditional HDL Flows San Jose, Calif., April 10, 2012—Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) ...

Altera Passes OpenCL Conformance with High-Performance Stratix V FPGA and Demonstrates SDK for OpenCL on ARM-based Cyclone V SoCs San Jose, Calif., October 16, 2013—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Altera Corporation(NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced its SDK for OpenCL is conformant to the OpenCL 1.0 standard and is now included on the Khronos Group ...

Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. While we have yet to see anything that can handle both parts of ...

Altera has announced that one of its early customers in the OpenCL for FPGAs programme, goHDR has ported its proprietary C-code to the OpenCL standard and implemented the code in an FPGA “in less than ...