Vulkan

[CuriousKit]

So the Khronos Group have recently released Vulkan as a kind of next-generation OpenGL and OpenCL, built from the ground up. One of the things that stands out is that it aims to simplify drivers and hence reduce overhead and otherwise be very high performance. Now, I haven't done enough research into it, having only just discovered it, but might it be of potential use for GIMPS in the future?

[Mark Rose]

Vulkan evolved from AMD's Mantle. It's a replacement for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, DirectX, etc. It's for graphics.

[CuriousKit]

Oh right, just that it mentions compute systems as well, hence GPU-based computation.

[Mark Rose]

As far as I know, OpenCL is still the standard for that.

[ldesnogu]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

Vulkan evolved from AMD's Mantle. It's a replacement for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, DirectX, etc. It's for graphics.

Vulkan is not a replacement for OpenGL, which will continue to exist
https://www.khronos.org/news/press/k...-specification

This ground-up design, complementing the OpenGL® and OpenGL ES™ 3D APIs, provides applications direct control over GPU acceleration for maximized performance and predictability with minimized CPU overhead and efficient multi-threaded performance.

[Mark Rose]

Originally Posted by ldesnogu

Vulkan is not a replacement for OpenGL, which will continue to exist
https://www.khronos.org/news/press/k...-specification

Yeah, I meant to say it can replace OpenGL in many applications, not that OpenGL would go away. Semantics :)