OpenCL SDK for GPU and CPU Available from AMD

AMD hit another important milestone today in its quest to support and drive increased adoption of accelerated computing by enabling developers to dynamically take advantage of multi-core CPUs and GPUs. AMD is releasing the fourth beta release of its ATI Stream SDK v2.0 that provides the first complete OpenCL development platform for the developer community. The Khronos Group has certified the release as fully compliant with OpenCL 1.0, and the SDK is supported on a wide range of AMD GPUs (please see https://developer.amd.com/streambeta for the full support list) as well as any x86 multi-core CPU supporting SSE3.

As the only company in the world delivering high-performance CPU and GPU technology, AMD is delivering on its unique ability to provide an OpenCL platform that enables developers to create applications that run the way they were meant to be run, on all of the available processors within a system. Our competition is only able to offer a partial implementation of OpenCL, forcing developers to leave a significant amount of CPU processing power unutilized in systems.

The beta is available for immediate download as part of the ATI Stream SDK beta program and we encourage you to take a look. Also please check out two blog posts on AMD.com that went live today. AMD's CMO Nigel Dessau discusses the end of proprietary standards here: https://links.amd.com/ndandopencl and Simon Solotko and Ben Sander weigh in on the new ATI Stream SDK v2.0 supporting OpenCL 1.0 for both x86 CPUs and a wide range of AMD GPUs here: https://links.amd.com/openftw.

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