Aparapi is an API for expressing data parallel workloads in Java and a runtime component capable of converting the Java bytecode of compatible workloads into OpenCL™ so that it can be executed on a variety of GPU devices.

Originally an AMD product, Aparapi was released to open source on September 14, 2011. Read Gary Frost’s blog to learn more.

• To download Aparapi or contribute to the project, please visit the open source project site at http://code.google.com/p/aparapi/.

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