In a massive about-turn, after declaring WebGL to be insecure and working on its own http replacement, IE11 will support WebGL and Google SPDY protocol. HTML5 support is also much improved, and some much-needed interface tweaks have been delayed.

Khronos would like to thank Pragmatic for donating five OpenGL eBooks to the Khronos All-Day BOF Blitz™ and After-Party™. As well, Khronos would like to thank Vivante, the PC Gaming Alliance, Imagination Technologies and more others for their generous donations. Learn more about the upcoming Khronos BOF Blitz™ and After-Party™.

The Khronos Group is looking for sponsors for the 2013 BOF Blitz After-Party™ event of the decade. Each sponsorship package has great value and exposure for your company priced to fit any budget. Attendance is not required. Regardless of whether or not you attend one of the nine BOFs, or the BOF Blitz After-Party, there are some attractive web banners to help advertise the event.

The Khronos Group would like to invite you to join them at the Khronos BOF After-Party™ to celebrate the 10th anniversary of OpenGL ES. The party takes place at the Hilton Anaheim California, Ballroom A&B, following the All-Day BOF Blitz™. Similar to last year, Khronos is also offering some great sponsorship opportunities.

In this three part OpenGL ES particle system tutorial series, you’ll learn how to make a cool and fun particle system from scratch, and integrate it into an iOS app!

‘R’ is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics created in the early ‘90s. Work is under way to allow R to run on the Parallella board with the Epiphany16/64 chip using OpenCL.

SimLab composer, a 3D scene building, rendering, sharing, and animation application, introduces significant improvements for WebGL. Enhancements include exporting cameras, supporting reflection maps and bump maps. The engine behind the WebGL export has been completely rewritten.

China’s National University of Defense Technology, is the world’s new No. 1 system with a performance of 33.86 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark, according to the 41stedition of the twice-yearlyTOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The surprise appearance of Tianhe-2, two years ahead of the expected deployment, marks China’s first return to the No. 1 position since November 2010, when Tianhe-1A was the top system. Tianhe-2 has 16,000 nodes, each with two Intel Xeon IvyBridge processors and three Xeon Phi processors for a combined total of 3,120,000 computing cores.

Phil Schiller announced the new Mac Pro at this years World Wide Developers Conference. Shipping standard with two AMD FirePro GPUs “[sic] for those of you who use OpenCL - and you all know you should, this delivers seven teraflops of compute power to your applications.”

ARM has announced the Cortex-A12, a mid-range target solution, with support for OpenGL ES 3.0. The new CPU core design is meant to deliver a 40 percent performance bump over Cortex-A9 designs. As well, the Cortex-A12 includes an improved GPU, the Mali-T622, which packs support for the Mali-V500 video engine and OpenGL ES 3.0 standard.

Using WebGL, Pics.io is planning on launching a browser-based service to let people more easily tap into raw photography with their browsers. Pics.io startup founded by a Ukrainian trio thinks it’s time for the Web browser to take on a computing task that so far has resisted the shift toward cloud computing: raw photo editing.