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| Original author(s) | Apple Inc. |
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| Developer(s) | Khronos Group |
| Initial release | August 28, 2009 |
| Stable release | 3.0.17[1] 
/ 24 October 2024 |
| Written in | C with C++ bindings |
| Operating system | Android (vendor dependent),[2] FreeBSD,[3] Linux, macOS (via Pocl), Windows |
| Platform | ARMv7, ARMv8,[4] Cell, IA-32, Power, x86-64 |
| Type | Heterogeneous computing API |
| License | OpenCL specification license |
| Website | www |
| Paradigm | Imperative (procedural), structured, (C++ only) object-oriented, generic programming |
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| Family | C |
| Stable release | |
| Typing discipline | Static, weak, manifest, nominal |
| Implementation language | Implementation specific |
| Filename extensions | .cl .clcpp |
| Website | www |
| Major implementations | |
| AMD, Gallium Compute, IBM, Intel NEO, Intel SDK, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, POCL, Arm | |
| Influenced by | |
| C99, CUDA, C++14, C++17 | |
OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a framework for writing programs that execute across heterogeneous platforms consisting of central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), digital signal processors (DSPs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other processors or hardware accelerators. OpenCL specifies a programming language (based on C99) for programming these devices and application programming interfaces (APIs) to control the platform and execute programs on the compute devices. OpenCL provides a standard interface for parallel computing using task- and data-based parallelism.
OpenCL is an open standard maintained by the Khronos Group, a non-profit, open standards organisation. Conformant implementations (passed the Conformance Test Suite) are available from a range of companies including AMD, ARM, Cadence, Google, Imagination, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, SPI and Verisilicon.[8][9]
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- ^ Munshi, Aaftab; Howes, Lee; Sochaki, Barosz (April 27, 2020). "The OpenCL C Specification Version: 3.0 Document Revision: V3.0.7" (PDF). Khronos OpenCL Working Group. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 20, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
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