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AFAIU, OpenCL is still a new technology - poised as competition to Nvidia's rather popular CUDA. However, in contrast with CUDA which is Nvidia-specific, OpenCL is an open standard backed by many vendors (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Apple, IBM, Qualcomm and others).

Don't for get that GPGPU is becoming hotter and hotter now that the computing devices blend and become heterogeneous (i.e. CPUs come with embedded GPUs, GPUs doing general-purpose computations, special acceleration hardware, etc). OpenCL is supposed to help with programming these devices.