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OpenCL, (Open Computing Language) an open standard for cross-platform, task-based as well as data-based parallel programming of CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, DSPs, including the C|C99 based programming language OpenCL C. OpenCL C forbids recursion, and omits function pointers, bit fields and variable-length arrays, but has fixed-length vector types, supporting SIMD instructions if available on the target platforms. OpenCL C 2.0 adds features like nested parallelism and shared virtual memory, 2.1 extends to a subset of C++14. OpenCL is maintained by the nonprofit technology consortium Khronos Group, adopted by Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, Nvidia, Altera, Samsung, Vivante, Imagination Technologies and ARM.

=Chess Projects=
 * Leela Chess Zero
 * Oscar, a Perft project by Steven Edwards
 * Zeta by Srdja Matovic

=Publications=
 * Aaftab Munshi, Benedict Gaster, Timothy Mattsonm, James Fung, Dan Ginsburg (2011). OpenCL Programming Guide. InformIT
 * Wolfram Schenck (2017). OpenCL Basics. slides as pdf

=Forum Posts=
 * Zeta, a chess engine in OpenCL by Srdja Matovic, CCC, March 17, 2010
 * OpenCL perft Technical Issues by Steven Edwards, CCC, August 26, 2014

=External Links=
 * OpenCL from Wikipedia
 * OpenCL - The open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems
 * SimpleOpenCL - a library created to reduce the amount of host code needed to write an OpenCL program. - Google Project Hosting

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