Hi,
I am just wondering if the Rapidmind aquisition has anything to do with the adoption of OpenCL? Are there any demos of Rapidmind products? I read the whitepapers and it does appear to be quite a flexible and powerful solution.
Is Intel going to launch an OpenCL implementation soon?
RapidMind currently targets CUDA, but I think a future version (maybe after we merge RapidMind with the Ct Technology project in Intel) should target OpenCL. I'd hope that would happen in 2010 - making that happen will depend on the maturity of OpenCL implementations we see appear from various companies.
RapidMind/Ct try to get great benefits by abstracting things to a higher level than OpenCL. I believe we'll succeed at that - the beta for that will start by the end of this year.
http://intel.com/software/data_parallelis a page you can sign-up to get notified when the beta is ready.
As for OpenCL - yes, Intel will have a version in the future, dates TBD.
