Khronos Group Announces Vulkan, OpenCL 2.1, SPIR-V

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Khronos Group Announces Vulkan, OpenCL 2.1, SPIR-V

Today is a very exciting day for those into open standard graphics and compute APIs! While driver implementations aren't expected until later in 2015, the next-generation OpenGL standard is being announced as the Vulkan API, the provisional specification to OpenCL 2.1 is being released, and SPIR-V is set to make its debut as the IR for both Vulkan and OpenCL 2.1.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=21505

[curaga]

Waiting for the spec...

[dungeon]

Blah i thought Vulkan is OpenGL replacement, but OpenGL goes as it is... Vulkan seems more just like Valve's Mantle

Now at least we know from where V came from and why V

[log0]

Waiting for the spec...

This. So tired of the marketing bs. Show us the goods, dammit!

[glxextxexlg]

Vulkan is a bad name and this logo looks awful. Khronos fails again in marketing and image.

[mark45]

Where's the original info, the pdf? Only URLs pointing back to phoronix.

[dungeon]

Vulkan is a bad name

It is good name, if it starts with V and ends with N Let guess how we got that name

Valve Unity LunarG Khronos AMD Nvidia

[glxextxexlg]

It is good name, if it starts with V and ends with N Let guess how we got that name

Valve Unity LunarG Khronos AMD Nvidia

Where is intel? Apple will be particularly pissed off with this.

[dungeon]

Where is intel? Apple will be particularly pissed off with this.

Intel is always there, do not worry too much - Apple is represented with LLVM and Microsoft with Unity

Do you know why that Mono shitty engine is so successfull? And LLVM too?

[AnonymousCoward]

Official site where you can download the presentation https://www.khronos.org/vulkan