opencl Getting started with opencl What is OpenCL?

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OpenCL is short for Open Computing Language. OpenCL is a Framework for parallel programming across heterogeneous platforms, called compute devices, ranging from CPUs over GPUs to more special platforms like FPGAs. OpenCL provides a standard interface for parallel computing on these compute devices but also inter-device parallelism. It specifies a programming language, based on C99, and minimum requirements of basic functions implemented on OpenCL capable devices. OpenCL furthermore describes an abstract computing and memory model, being as general as possible to make the reuse of code between different platforms straightforward.