Altera is looking to put OpenCL (Open Computing Language) into FPGA hardware. This could give GPUs a run for the money when it comes to accelerating parallel processing. It could also increase ...

Altera has announced general availability of its SDK for OpenCL designed to allow software programmers to more easily offload compute-intensive functions to FPGA hardware. With SDK for OpenCL, ...

Altera's SDK for OpenCL is designed to put OpenCL code into an FPGA without requiring any additional FPGA design expertise. Khronos Group's OpenCL has become very popular with GPU platforms and it ...

Altera has announced a software development kit (SDK) for OpenCL (Open Computing Language), for use with its FPGA, which combines the parallel architecture of an FPGA with the OpenCL parallel ...

Altera announced results of a benchmark study performed by Berkeley Design Technology Inc. (BDTI) on implementing floating-point DSP designs on Altera 28 nm FPGAs. As much an examination of Altera’s ...

Hardware and device makers are in a mad dash to create or acquire the perfect chip for performing deep learning training and inference. While we have yet to see anything that can handle both parts of ...

San Jose, Calif. August 28, 2012—Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced its OpenCL (Open Computing Language) for FPGAs Early Access Program (EAP), enabling customers to get a first look at ...

San Jose, Calif., November 5, 2012– Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced the FPGA industry’s first Software Development Kit (SDK) for OpenCL™ (Open Computing Language) which ...

The use of FPGAs in HPC is limited less by the capabilities of current hardware and more by the challenges in programming them without sacrificing performance. Recent work from Boston University has ...

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe explains how OpenCL may make FPGAs an attractive option. In January 2015, FPGAs took a step closer to the mainstream of ...

Altera has announced that one of its early customers in the OpenCL for FPGAs programme, goHDR has ported its proprietary C-code to the OpenCL standard and implemented the code in an FPGA “in less than ...

With last week's big Altera acquisition Intel made an expensive bet on a future of data center hardware that uses significantly more customized designs than today's monolithic racks of commodity x86 ...