robertfontaine wrote:
... As above but for HPC... It's good to see you hiring for the OpenCL team. The other guys have been winning with drivers and intel doesn't make its assembly a secret. If Mantle is AMD's answer to Cuda then get past the Gamer mentality. The Firepro should be in competition with the Tesla in supercomputing and we should be able to find uncrippled fp64 cards at the hobbyist level. Knight's Corner is essentially being given away to build a community. SDK's to commercial games development misses the point. If you want a critical mass of development on the platform you need to get the hardware and api's into developers hands. .... Please.
How do you fathom Mantle [a low level API for Graphics processing] is an answer to CUDA? CUDA's competitor is OpenCL. Mantle is an answer to fixing the areas where OpenGL is a bottleneck, thus the adaptation of OpenGL Next being grafted from Mantle.