AMD CodeAnalyst v3.5 for Windows has been released and can be downloaded from AMD CodeAnalyst for Windows page at the following URL http://developer.amd.com/cpu/codeanalyst/codeanalystwindows Based on many valuable suggestions and feedback we received from our end-users, we are excited to say that … Continue reading
AMD OpenCL™ APP SDK 2.6: introducing OpenCL™ 1.2 preview and Static C++ kernel language
Several weeks or so ago in my prior blog I included a teaser on the imminent availability of not only the latest AMD APP SDK, but also that we would be releasing a preview of many OpenCL™ 1.2 features. In … Continue reading
New Heterogeneous Compute Tools from MulticoreWare Inc.
We are excited to announce the beta availability of three new heterogeneous compute tools from MulticoreWare Inc (MCW). These tools provide capabilities such as global memory for accelerators, global task management and path analysis to help developers achieve maximum benefit … Continue reading
AMD OpenCL™ APP SDK Preview
It’s that time again, AMD APP SDK 2.6 is almost upon us and I would like to take this opportunity to introduce some key changes as we continue driving OpenCL™ development and continually roll out new features and enhancements. You … Continue reading
OpenCL™: the leading choice for GPGPU developers
It’s quite amazing how far OpenCL™ has come these last two years, further than many people realize. A recent survey by Evans Data Corporation shows the inevitable success of OpenCL. In this survey respondents ranked the most popular APIs for … Continue reading
CodeAnalyst Linux 3.1 Released !
AMD CodeAnalyst software for Linux® 3.1 has been released and can be downloaded from the AMD CodeAnalyst for Linux website: http://developer.amd.com/cpu/codeanalyst/codeanalystlinux Last quarter, a lot of active users suggested new enhancements, posted queries and bugs. You are helping us to … Continue reading
A new NUMA option for Windows® on the Hotspot JVM
Here we discuss a new option that AMD contributed to the Hotspot JVM that helps improve performance on some applications on NUMA systems running Windows® OS. On some applications and heap configurations we saw up to a 2.5X performance improvement. … Continue reading
5 minutes work for up to 5% more Hadoop performance
Lately we have been working on studying and trying to improve the performance of Apache Hadoop. In the spring my coworker Shrinivas Joshi created a great Hadoop tuning reference poster: http://blogs.amd.com/developer/2011/07/12/apache-hadoop-performance-tuning-methodologies-and-best-practices-%E2%80%93-a-downloadable-reference-guide/ This week I made a pleasant discovery that would … Continue reading
AMD CodeAnalyst 3.4 support for newest chips
We now have support for the Comal and Virgo (family 15h) processor based systems. You are invited to optimize your applications on our newest systems to your hearts’ content. This release is targeted for robustness, chock-full of fixed bugs. We removed issues for … Continue reading
I don’t always write GPU code in Java but when I do I like to use Aparapi
The AMD JavaLabs team is proud to announce the open source release of our Aparapi project. Over 18 months ago we began to investigate how Java developers might be able to take advantage of the (potentially huge) compute performance of … Continue reading
