AMD Releases The Production Version of ATI Stream SDK 2.0
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:11 pm
AMD Releases Production Version of Second-Generation Software Development Platform for ATI Stream Computing
− Full production ATI Stream SDK v2.0 supports GPUs, x86 CPUs with industry standard OpenCL™ development tools −
− Full production ATI Stream SDK v2.0 supports GPUs, x86 CPUs with industry standard OpenCL™ development tools −
What: December 21, 2009: AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced availability of the production release of its second-generation ATI Stream SDK, certified compliant with OpenCL 1.0 for both AMD CPUs and GPUs. This release of ATI Stream SDK v2.0 supports a wide range of AMD GPUs1 and multi-core x86 CPUs, including the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970, the world’s fastest graphics card generating five teraflops of compute power.2 Enabling better-balanced platforms for a faster computing experience, this solution available that enables developers to run demanding computing tasks on both x86 CPUs and GPUs in a system.
Why: This release of AMD’s ATI Stream SDK v2.0 provides developers, ISVs and OEMs with a production development environment that allows them to more easily accelerate applications. By enabling developers to utilize combined CPU and GPU computing power, ATI Stream technology helps developers to identify and offload parallelized tasks to the GPU, thereby improving the computing experience.
Who: The developer community, ISVs and OEMs are increasingly looking to harness the power and performance associated with accelerated computing to develop applications that will run the way they were meant to be run – on all the available processors in a system.
AMD plans to make regular updates with improvements and performance enhancements that will further allow developers, ISVs and OEMs to optimize CPU and GPU utilization for accelerated computing.
Benefits: The production release of ATI Stream SDK v2.0 includes support for several new features, including: OpenCL ICD (Installable Client Driver), atomic function for 32-bit integers, and a Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008-integrated ATI Stream Profiler performance analysis tool. Preview support for upcoming features include: OpenGL® interoperability and Microsoft® DirectX® 9 and 10 interoperability.
With the introduction of OpenCL ICD, developers can easily support multiple vendors’ OpenCL-compliant products with their ATI Stream applications by querying and selecting, at runtime, the devices they wish to run on. This makes it easier for developers to deploy ATI Stream applications and for customers to take advantage of ATI Stream acceleration on different platforms.
The ATI Stream Profiler performance analysis tool makes it easy for developers using Microsoft Visual Studio to profile their ATI Stream applications and identify performance bottlenecks. Easily identifying the bottlenecks in their code allows developers to more quickly optimize and deploy their applications.
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