SIMD started it, SIMT improved it
50 years later, a GPU replaces a room-sized supercomputer.
Imagination’s open source driver grows up
Imagination adds Vulkan 1.2 and more GPUs to its open stack
Introducing SPECviewperf benchmark 15
Includes new graphics APIs for DirectX 12 and Vulkan, and new workloads.
Will Arm make it to the workstation world?
Ampere offers a dev kit to those who want to try.
Khronos Vulkan cross-platform road map
An API for all client devices.
The great migration of the drawing library
It was moved to where it could do the most good, but not always in a timely manner.
Khronos brings Vulkanization back to the US
An archaic name for an advance API.
Free-range APIs out on the ‘Mesa’ do ray tracing
Radeon driver achieves emulated ray tracing.
Video transcoding via Vulkan
Khronos adds accelerated H.264 and H.265 decode.
The improved RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver
Older AMD AIBs run software ray tracing even better.
Want to know how to design an app using a GPU?
Ever since you learned out to spell GPU, you’ve wanted to use one, program one, build a game or an app. Well, now you can. Imagination Technologies announces that it has rejuvenated and revitalized the Imagination University Programme (“IUP”). The company is now offering a complete mobile graphics course designed to teach undergraduates how to create graphics for mobile devices. … Read more
Khronos extends and releases Vulkan 1.2 for GPU acceleration
Mount Vulkaan – Wikipedia The sun never sets on Khronos, and Vulkan never sleeps. Khronos’s Vulkan is also no Rip Van Winkel and since the release of Vulkan 1.1 at Siggraph 2016, over 23 extensions to an already robust API have been suggested to the committee. Those extensions have been accepted bringing significant developer-requested access to new hardware functionality, … Read more