Tuesday, December 22nd 2009

AMD Releases Production Version of 2nd-Generation ATI Stream Computing SDK

AMD today announced availability of the production release of its second-generation ATI Stream SDK, its second-generation ATI Stream SDK, the first production SDK for both AMD GPUs and x86 CPUs. This release of ATI Stream SDK v2.0 supports a wide range of ATI graphics processors, including the new ATI Radeon HD 5970, the world's fastest graphics card generating five teraflops of compute power. Enabling compute intensive codes to leverage all of the system's resources, the ATI Stream SDK v2.0 helps developers deliver a better application experience.

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 leverage heterogeneous architectures to improve the computing experience.

The developer community, ISVs and OEMs are increasingly looking to harness the power and performance associated with heterogeneous architectures 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 their applications.

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 and Microsoft DirectX 10 interoperability, and double-precision floating point basic arithmetic in OpenCL C kernels.

With the introduction of OpenCL ICD, developers can easily support multiple vendors' OpenCL-compliant products with their ATI Stream-enabled applications by querying and selecting, at runtime, the devices they wish to target. This makes it easier for developers to deploy ATI Stream-enabled 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-enabled applications and identify performance bottlenecks. Easily identifying the bottlenecks in their code allows developers to more quickly optimize and deploy their applications.

For more information about ATI Stream SDK 2.0, visit the ATI Stream SDK v2.0 Product Page.
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33 Comments on AMD Releases Production Version of 2nd-Generation ATI Stream Computing SDK

#26
Hayder_Master
:ohwell: wait release SDK 2.0 for "AMD GPUs and x86 CPUs" , x86 cpu's that's mean intel cpu's :wtf:
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Mussels
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hayder.master:ohwell: wait release SDK 2.0 for "AMD GPUs and x86 CPUs" , x86 cpu's that's mean intel cpu's :wtf:
x86 means anything (in home consumer) CPU. Intel, Via, whoever. openCL always had CPU fallback.
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#28
Baum
ati and gpu acceleration is scam!
it started with my x1900 capable of nothing for video and i've done the same thing :banghead: and bought a new hd4650 some time ago.

ati get your homework done, nvidia is even out with several applications i haven't seen any steam apps running on my ati gpu, those cyberlink accelerated by HD4xxx is nearly vaporware (Cyberlink Espresso is meant to have some steam support)
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#29
a_ump
jc, will this help with F@H any?
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#30
Mussels
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Baum: ATI is behind with Stream, than nvidia with cuda. give them time.

A_UMP: no.
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#31
Wshlist
This is great, it will enable wonderful utilities like 'is-it-on-checker' and such to detect if you have it, then you can post screenshots, oh glorious yay.

As for actual programs that use it to speed things up.. well don't be silly, that's not what this is for is it?
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#32
Mussels
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WshlistThis is great, it will enable wonderful utilities like 'is-it-on-checker' and such to detect if you have it, then you can post screenshots, oh glorious yay.

As for actual programs that use it to speed things up.. well don't be silly, that's not what this is for is it?
those programs will come soon enough - best to have the drivers ready BEFORE the applications, eh?
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#33
Wshlist
The SDK has enabled GPU applications for a long-ass time now, we are talking in the order of years now I think, and AMD could produce their own concept-demo utilities, all they do is the half-baked converter which doesn't even use the GPU in many cases and doesn't work on 64bit windows and which you need to start by doing silly things like putting the CCC in basic (why the hell can't they just add a shortcut?)

So yeah you hold your breath while I dig a hole for you to 'rest' in.

(Sarcasm aside; happy new-year though :)
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