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WebCL: executing OpenCL from the browser

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Last Updated on Monday, 18 March 2013

A few months ago WebGL, a software library that extends JavaScript to allow it to generate interactive 3D graphics was released, yesterday it was the turn of WebCL, with the aim of allowing modern browsers to execute OpenCL kernels from javascript code. This brings GPGPU computing into web pages.

This means that web browser applications will have access to the computing heterogeneity of current systems, opening the way those who are high computational demanding (physics calculations, graphic editing...).

Read more about this here and here.

And some demos here.

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