OpenCL 将在2008年12月11 号在亚洲举行的 SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 上公布1.0版本

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上面这条新闻从http://www.siggraph.org/asia2008/attendees/related/ 转过来，看到这里，对CUDA肯定会有冲击，不过看过OpenCL的文档，和CUDA的Device编程差不多，CUDA的编程技巧一样可以应用到OpenCL上。

对于并行编程而言，算法才是关键，了解平台大家都差不多：）

有竞争才会有发展，期待……