Join AMD at SIGGRAPH 2011
Next week I will be attending SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver BC. Please come and join me and check out AMD’s SIGGRAPH 2011 booth #631 where you can see the latest in GPU technology, digital art-making...
View ArticleOpenCL and heterogeneous computing reaches a new level
OpenCL Programming Guide, by Aaftab Munshi, Benedict R Gaster, Timothy G. Mattson, James Fung, Dan Ginsburg The Open Computing Language (OpenCLTM) is already in its second revision, OpenCL 1.1, but...
View ArticleAMD APP SDK 2.5 provides enhanced performance and major new capabilities
Today I would like to introduce you to AMD’s latest update for OpenCL, AMD APP SDK 2.5 and the Catalyst 11.7 drivers. Since the Catalyst 11.4 driver release back in April, AMD’s OpenCL runtime for...
View ArticleOpenCL™: the leading choice for GPGPU developers
It’s quite amazing how far OpenCL™ has come these last two years, further than many people realize. A recent survey by Evans Data Corporation shows the inevitable success of OpenCL. In this survey...
View ArticleAMD OpenCL™ APP SDK Preview
It’s that time again, AMD APP SDK 2.6 is almost upon us and I would like to take this opportunity to introduce some key changes as we continue driving OpenCL™ development and continually roll out new...
View ArticleSlotMaximizer extension to LLVM can help you to quickly optimize OpenCL™...
I would like to introduce you to SlotMaximizer. SlotMaximizer is a transformation tool that automatically tunes OpenCL™ kernels, helping to increase developer productivity. It aids developers to...
View ArticleWelcome to OpenCL™ 1.2: check out these Beta drivers that contain a complete...
Last December we released preview drivers that contained much of new the functionality defined in the OpenCL 1.2™ specification. AMD is an ardent promoter of OpenCL™, and today, I am pleased to make...
View ArticleOpenCL™ 1.2 and C++ Static kernel language now available
Beginning with the SDK 2.6 availability back in December of 2011 I have been making available preview versions of both OpenCL™ 1.2 support and improved C++ support for both host side and kernel side...
View ArticleBolt Architecture
Today we released a preview version of the Bolt C++ Template Library included in the APP SDK 2.8. The primary goal of Bolt is to make it easier for developers to utilize the inherent performance and...
View ArticleSilverlight is Dead? Hardly. Long Live Silverlight!
Microsoft released the Beta of Silverlight 5 today, which marks an exciting milestone in Silverlight’s evolution. For those unfamiliar with it, Silverlight is a development platform and runtime for...
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