NVIDIA Pushes CUDA 7 RC With C++11 Features, Runtime Compilation

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Pushes CUDA 7 RC With C++11 Features, Runtime Compilation

NVIDIA announced the release today of the CUDA 7.0 Release Candidate that brings new features to their popular but proprietary parallel programming toolkit...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-CUDA-7-Features

[Marc Driftmeyer]

What? They aren't pushing OpenCL even though the head of Khronos.org's OpenCL team is from Nvidia? Seriously, can

Neil Trevett
Vice President NVIDIA, President Khronos
OpenCL Working Group Chair

please step down and put someone from Apple and/or AMD in his slot?

[efikkan]

Nvidia is in fact one of the main contributors behind behind OpenCL, you'll have to blame the rest of the board for holding the advancement back.

[magika]

Apple and/or AMD in his slot?

pls no

[TechMage89]

Nvidia is in fact one of the main contributors behind behind OpenCL, you'll have to blame the rest of the board for holding the advancement back.

Yeah, maybe on paper. In practice, NVIDIA's OpenCL implementation still only supports OpenCL 1.1, and has plenty of longstanding bugs and limitations they don't care to fix. They've actually removed OpenCL support from their main CUDA package (you have to hunt down the SDK), and pretty much none of their debugging or performance analysis tools work with it any more (although they used to).