As reported by Blendernation user community, LuxRender developers are planning to use OpenCL for hardware-accelerated rendering of 3D scenes.

Thanks to considerably advanced features of OpenCL this will make it possible to parallelize rendering between CPU cores, GPUs and available network computers. The GPU-side rendering, of course, is currently only possiible for ATi and Nvidia hardware. We'll see if Intel is going to join the circus.

More on this topic:

• 3Delight exporter for Blender updated to feature new global illumination method
• Mitsuba 0.3.0 released with new sun/sky model and other improvements
• CGRU v1.5 released with more sophisticated support for Houdini
• GEGL is getting GPU-based image rendering and processing
• LuxRender 0.8 released with new features and GPU rendering