Computation MMXII

2012
Not planning on using OpenCL for your projects going forward.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-bkNEaJJ4

Seriously, if you aren't learning OpenCL, you're going to be obsolete if you're a low-level C/C++ programmer, game programmer, AI programmer, etc.

And Intel's Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture (MIC, aka Knight's Corner), is programmable with OpenCL. The hardware specs are being fully published.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MIC

The many-core concurrency revolution is here, and it's not through garbage like Haskell, Scala, or Clojure. It's through C and OpenCL.