March 3, 2015, The Khronos Group released preliminary information on their latest graphics API called Vulkan. This new open standard API is targeted for those graphics developers who need direct access and control of GPU functions. The preliminary specifications later this year and will be available for comment at www.khronos.org/vulkan/vulkan_feedback_forum The new API is completely…
August 11, 2014, Siggraph—Neil Trevett from Khronos announced the latest releases of the OpenGL, OpenGL ESTM and WebGLTM to provide portable access to graphics and compute capabilities across multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, Linux, OS X, Windows and the Web. These standards are used for 3-D media across numerous mobile and desktop devices. The OpenGL…
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA— Laurence Emms from Pixar Animation Studios discusses how Pixar employs General Purpose GPU software in its production pipeline. The creation of digital video content requires significant amounts of processing. Pixar has been using GPUs for real-time preview of assets for a long time. They have used…
August 2012 – At SIGGRAPH 2012, Imagination Technology was showing a number of their graphics cores and compute cores that now spread from mobile devices through settop boxes and high resolution displays (through 4K). These products were shown in the context of their new API support for the Kronos OpenGL ES3.0 release. This API is…
April 2012 – At NAB this year, Nvidia was showing a number of new GPU applications in their booth as well as their Maximus video solution. The Maximus GPU solution is the combination of a Quadro video card and a Tesla CPU computing card in a single system. This combination allows for very high performance…