Intel has just released an update to their OpenCL (Open Computing Language) SDK (Software Development Kit). With this update Intel has released a 64bit .rpm package, and previously only supported Windows. OpenCL is a huge jump in the future of heterogeneous computing, and the future of computers. Intel joins a host of manufacturers that now support OpenCL which includes AMD/ATI and nVidia. OpenCL has many competitors in the heterogeneous computing realm which includes nVidia’s CUDA and Microsoft’s DirectCompute. All of this is one giant step forward in GPGPU. In the majority of computers that have dedicated GPU’s or have an Intel processor with on-cpu graphics that are not in use, this is great news! Hopefully, future Linux distributions implement OpenCL similar to OS X did with Snow Leopard.