[timnic]

Concerning software abstraction layers: What do you think of OpenCL? It's advertised as a way to utilise the combined computing power of multi-cores and GPUs. I am not at all an expert on this but it seems just too good to be true.

[snprbob86]

I think all of the C-style languages are doomed in the increasingly parallelized world. I don't know much of OpenCL specifically, but all of the HLSL/Cg/GLSL derivatives seem woefully unprepared for tasks which are not "embarrassingly parallel". Some of the newer derivatives might be capable of solving tougher problems, but that doesn't mean they are good at it.