Establishing of a body for development of open standards for heterogeneous computing; providing industry support for heterogeneous computing and supporting computing innovation; advancement of the promulgation of open industry standards in the field of heterogeneous computing; information services in the field of heterogeneous computing; advancement of a graphics processing unit (GPU) as a co-processor to a central processing unit (CPU) in computing; development of and promotion of collaboration to achieve industry support of a graphic processing unit (GPU) as a co-processor to a central processing unit (CPU) in computing, by developing computing architecture definitions, by expansion of parallel programming models via tools and libraries, and by innovation in operating system runtimes; development of programs for software developers in the field of heterogeneous computing; providing of computer architectural support for special purpose computer hardware accelerators; educational and training programs in the field of heterogeneous computing; development of heterogeneous computer programmer talent; development of tools, software development kits, software libraries, documentation and training materials in the field of heterogeneous computing; promoting collaboration within the computing community in the field of heterogeneous computing; marketing consultation and development services in the field of heterogeneous computing and innovative and advanced computing content and applications