Summary

In this chapter we got a brief overview of what an OpenCL program will look like. We started with a discussion of various parallel programming techniques, and their pros and cons. Different components of an OpenCL application were discussed. Various vendors providing OpenCL capable hardware were also discussed in this chapter. Finally, we ended the chapter with a discussion of a simple OpenCL example, SAXPY. In the following few chapters, we will discuss about the different OpenCL objects. We start with a discussion on the OpenCL architecture and various OpenCL models in the following chapter.