OpenCL components
Before delving into the programming aspects in OpenCL, we will take a look at the different components in an OpenCL framework. The first thing is the OpenCL specification. The OpenCL specification describes the OpenCL programming architecture details, and a set of APIs to perform specific tasks, which are all required by an application developer. This specification is provided by the Khronos OpenCL consortium. Besides this, Khronos also provides OpenCL header files. They are cl.h, cl_gl.h, cl_platform.h, and so on.
An application programmer uses these header files to develop his application and the host compiler links with the OpenCL.lib library on Windows. This library contains the entry points for the runtime DLL OpenCL.dll ...
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