OpenCL - Programming language

OpenCL is an open source programming language created in 2009.

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Open Computing Language (OpenCL) 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 programming languages (based on C99 and C++11) 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. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 0 OpenCL repos on GitHub
Early development of OpenCL happened in Khronos Group
Check out the 37 OpenCL meetup groups on Meetup.com.
OpenCL is supported by the GDB
OpenCL appears in the TIOBE Index
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for OpenCL
Indeed.com has 266 matches for "opencl engineer".
See also: (17 related languages) OpenGL, Android, FreeBSD, Linux, IA-32, CUDA, C, Python, Java, LLVM IR, Mathematica, JavaScript, ARM, X86, PTX, Metal, SequenceL
10 PLDB concepts link to OpenCL: Basis Codec, Charcoal, CIR, Emscripten, FFmpeg, Futhark, HHVM, HyPhy, LWJGL, OpenCV

Example from Linguist:

/* Old-style comment. */

// New-style comment.

typedef float foo_t;

#ifndef ZERO
#define ZERO (0.0)
#endif

#define FOO(x) ((x) + \
  ZERO)

__kernel
void foo(__global const foo_t * x, __local foo_t y, const uint n)
{
  barrier(CLK_LOCAL_MEM_FENCE);

  if (n > 42) {
    *x += y;
  }
}

Example from Wikipedia:

// This kernel computes FFT of length 1024. The 1024 length FFT is decomposed into
  // calls to a radix 16 function, another radix 16 function and then a radix 4 function

  __kernel void fft1D_1024 (__global float2 *in, __global float2 *out,
                          __local float *sMemx, __local float *sMemy) {
    int tid = get_local_id(0);
    int blockIdx = get_group_id(0) * 1024 + tid;
    float2 data[16];

    // starting index of data to/from global memory
    in = in + blockIdx;  out = out + blockIdx;

    globalLoads(data, in, 64); // coalesced global reads
    fftRadix16Pass(data);      // in-place radix-16 pass
    twiddleFactorMul(data, tid, 1024, 0);

    // local shuffle using local memory
    localShuffle(data, sMemx, sMemy, tid, (((tid & 15) * 65) + (tid >> 4)));
    fftRadix16Pass(data);               // in-place radix-16 pass
    twiddleFactorMul(data, tid, 64, 4); // twiddle factor multiplication

    localShuffle(data, sMemx, sMemy, tid, (((tid >> 4) * 64) + (tid & 15)));

    // four radix-4 function calls
    fftRadix4Pass(data);      // radix-4 function number 1
    fftRadix4Pass(data + 4);  // radix-4 function number 2
    fftRadix4Pass(data + 8);  // radix-4 function number 3
    fftRadix4Pass(data + 12); // radix-4 function number 4

    // coalesced global writes
    globalStores(data, out, 64);
  }

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X