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Re:Ask HN: How to learn OpenCL by mschlafli1 on Sunday January 26, 2014 @01:35PM (#7126164)
Mess around with open-source applications (such as Rodinia benchmark suite and NAS parallel benchmarks) after going through the basic tutorials on AMD, Intel and Nvidia webpages.
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Re:Ask HN: How to learn OpenCL by WizzleKake on Sunday January 26, 2014 @01:37PM (#7126177)
A good open-source OpenCL application might be cgminer or bfgminer, might have to get an older version though, it looks like the latest ones have abandoned OpenCL/GPU support.
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Re:Ask HN: How to learn OpenCL by tibbon on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:21PM (#7126411)
Any idea why they abandoned it? CPU-only mining seems to be kinda pointless these days...
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Re:Ask HN: How to learn OpenCL by dmm on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:31PM (#7126460)
Cgminer and bfgminer are focused on usb based ASIC miners now. Bfgminer still supports cpu and gpu mining, it's just unsupported and not compiled by default.
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