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First WebCL Demos Arrive From Nokia and AMD

Posted by timothy on from the heading-toward-the-singularity dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Samsung and Nokia have released initial implementations of WebCL for web browsers. Nokia's version works with Firefox 4 and AMD's App SDK on Windows Vista/7 32-bit and Samsung's version on Mac OS X 10.6.7 with Safari and Nvidia OpenCL GPUs. The implementation has little to no use for average users, but there are a couple YouTube videos that showcase the horsepower of GPUs in physics computations — inside a browser window."

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  1. Not a security hole at all... ;-) by makomk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Take a look at ticket #1 on the Nokia OpenCL plugin. Arbitrary code execution anyone? The security issues with WebGL are massively overblown, but WebCL seems to be a different matter entirely.

  2. Re:Huh? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's an important step for the web. Previously, buggy crap from advertisers could only peg your CPU at 100%. Now it can also peg your GPU at 100%. The war on battery life is nearly won!

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  3. Re:Bitcoin? by Animats · · Score: 4, Insightful

    good for real world earnings of about $10 per day - at least as long as the Bitcoin currency remains intact.

    Iif you create a web page which does Bitcoin mining in the background while displaying something else, you may be able to get people to do the computation for you.

    Bitcoin will probably tank before WebCL gets going. Bitcoin was supposed to be a transactional currency for micropayments. Instead, it's become almost entirely a speculative market. Bigcoin fans are franticallly "mining" and trading, but no major retailer accepts Bitcoins. Bitcoins are now so volatile that pricing anything in Bitcoins is hopeless. (Today's range is $12.40 to $15.00 per Bitcoin.)

    Without significant usage as a currency, it's not a currency. It's a pyramid scheme. About $100,000 worth of new Bitcoins are generated each day, and to keep the price up, the scheme needs $100,000 of new sucker money each day. Lately there's been a sucker shortage, and the price has been declining.

  4. Re:Bitcoin? by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Careful, you'll have the bitcoin cultists, and federal reserve conspiracy nuts after you. And they have mod points.

  5. Re:Bitcoin? by QRDeNameland · · Score: 4, Funny

    Careful, you'll have the bitcoin cultists, and federal reserve conspiracy nuts after you. And they have mod points.

    Yes, but they're only fiat mod points.

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