GCC 4.7 is available with support for AMD Opteron™ 6200 series and AMD FX series processors
Have you tried the new GCC release 4.7 yet? The recent GCC release helps improve support for AMD Opteron™ 6200 series and AMD FX series processors, and adds support for upcoming AMD processors with the “Piledriver” core. This is an … Continue reading
ACML Engineer Interviewed – Listen to the Podcast
I recently had a different sort of meeting. I was on the receiving end of an interview by Jeff Squyres and Brock Palen of RCE (http://www.rce-cast.com/). Brock has been chiming in on the ACML forum and Jeff is one of … Continue reading
Introducing the ATI GPU Services (AGS) Library
AMD recently released the ATI GPU Services (AGS) Library to help software developers take advantage of AMD Eyefinity and AMD CrossFireX™ technologies. By using this library, developers can: Query AMD GPU software and hardware state information that is not normally … Continue reading
A Different Way of Rounding to Even
The round-to-even method, also known as unbiased rounding or statistician’s rounding, is a very popular type of rounding floating-point numbers to integral numbers. This kind of rounding is very important for statisticians and bankers because the average error is due … Continue reading
AMD Display Library SDK Now Supports ATI Eyefinity technology
Recently, my colleague Neal Robison blogged about AMD’s Gamers’ Manifesto, the guiding principles that define what AMD does for the gaming industry and game developers. Another example of our commitment to our technology partners is the latest AMD Display Library … Continue reading
ACML 4.4.0 PathScale Support
Explaining why the new ACML 4.4.0 does not include PathScale builds. Continue reading
ACML 4.4.0 Released!
Most of the Linux builds of ACML 4.4.0 are now live on the ACML download page. The NAG builds will follow very soon. We have not yet posted any Windows builds, although there are links for them on the download … Continue reading
SuperComputing 2009 – Day 2
Of the Wednesday sessions, one of the most interesting was a talk on Matlab. Matlab has language constructs such as parfor that enable rapid migration to multicore. And the distributed keyword marks an array as suitable for parallel processing. Matlab … Continue reading
SuperComputing 2009
Online at last. I can’t believe some hotels still charge for wireless internet. Here at the SuperComputing 2009 show in sunny Portland Oregon, wireless is free, fast, and reliable. For the first time at an super computing show, I have … Continue reading
Framewave Multipass Build System
Developing libraries can be difficult, fun and interesting; an equally difficult task is testing the library and distributing it, so that other developers can use the library in their projects. The big advantage of using libraries to accomplish certain … Continue reading
