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Resources for GPU-accelerated computing (GPGPU) on iPhone?

I'm interested in doing GPU acceleration calculations in iOS (for iPhone 3GS and 4). Unfortunately, none of the devices supports OpenCL, so it seems that the only choice is to express the program data as graphic data and use the OpenGL ES 2.0 programmable shaders (vertex and fragment) to do this job. Can anyone recommend any resources that might be helpful? The sample code is the holy grail.

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There are still several ways to do this. If you want to support older devices, you should stick with the OpenGL ES 2.0 shaders. There are GPUImage and ogles_gpgpu frameworks for this. The latter even supports Android systems.

I also wrote a master's thesis on this topic: Parallel computing for processing digital signals on graphic devices of mobile devices .

Now you can do more complex GPGPU stuff with OpenGL ES 3.0. For example, this post . Apple now also has the Metal API, which allows you to perform even more computing operations on the GPU. Both OpenGL ES 3.x and Metal are only supported by newer devices with the A7 chip.

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https://github.com/torinnguyen/Ripple

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