AMD has been hard at work trying to boost their “Stream” technology to somethign competitive with NVidia’s CUDA, and a new press release does a great job at cataloging the recent successes they’ve had.
- AMD was the first company to deliver a public beta release of an OpenCL software development platform for x86-based CPUs on August 5, 2009. The OpenCL for CPU implementation was certified conformant by Khronos on September 3, 2009.
- The complete ATI Stream SDK v2.0 for CPU and GPU software development using OpenCL is planned for full release later this year.
- To further meet the ATI Stream developer community’s needs, AMD has successfully completed the migration of its Brook+ project to SourceForge. SourceForge is a centralized online location for software developers to control and manage open source software, where the developer community can continue to work with and evolve the Brook+ code.
- AMD’s upcoming next generation ATI Radeon™ family of DirectX™ 11 enabled graphics processors are expected to be the first to support accelerated processing on the GPU through DirectCompute.
The real focus of the release is that they’ve submitted their OpenCL implementation to the Khronos Working Group for certification, which (if/once approved) will make AMD the only company to have a working CPU & GPU implementation of OpenCL.
via AMD Advances its Commitment to OpenCL™ for GPU With Review by Standards Body.
