Giacomo Graziosi

Princes use God as a bogey to get their grown-up children to bed when nothing else will any longer serve; which is why they value him so highly. [...] Since that ultima ratio theologorum (final argument of theology), the stake, has gone out of use, the effectiveness of this means of government has much diminished. For, as you know, religions are like fireflies: they require darkness in order to shine. A certain degree of general ignorance is the condition for the existence of any religion, the element in which alone it is able to live.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Darkness.

I was almost going to miss this press release from the Khronos Group (the industrial group behind standards like OpenGL), looks like they are finally getting serious with general purpose computing on GPUs with the launch of a working group to create open standards for it. This group is going to include names like AMD, Apple, ARM, Freescale, IBM, Intel, Nokia, NVIDIA and many others so we can expect something really big coming out of it. Apple has already proposed OpenCL, maybe it won’t take so long before we can put our hands on a cross platform GPGPU tool.