 | This article needs to be updated. (April 2021) |
| Developer(s) | Stanford University |
|---|---|
| Stable release | v0.5 Beta 1
/ 2007 |
| Repository | |
| Operating system | Linux, Windows |
| Type | Compiler/runtime |
| License | BSD license (parts are under the GPL) |
| Website | http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/brookgpu/ |
In computing, the Brook programming language and its implementation BrookGPU were early and influential attempts to enable general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU).[1][2] Brook, developed at Stanford University graphics group, was a compiler and runtime implementation of a stream programming language targeting modern, highly parallel GPUs such as those found on ATI or Nvidia graphics cards.
BrookGPU compiled programs written using the Brook stream programming language, which is a variant of ANSI C. It could target OpenGL v1.3+, DirectX v9+ or AMD's Close to Metal for the computational backend and ran on both Microsoft Windows and Linux. For debugging, BrookGPU could also simulate a virtual graphics card on the CPU.
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