AMD announced that it has joined the OpenJDK Project “Sumatra” to support heterogeneous computing models for Java.

Accordingly, Clarkson’s team developed an experimental framework for a lightweight approach to programming GPUs directly from Java while adding very little in the way of code work. Their effort, ...

A proposed project for the OpenJDK open source implementation would fit GPU (graphics processor unit) support to . Advocates, including Oracle and AMD, intend for the project to enable Java ...

At the JavaOne show, an IBM executive said Java applications could see a significant performance boost when taking advantage of GPU accelerators.