This webinar series is designed to help advance your OpenCL programming knowledge. Experts from AMD will cover both beginning and advanced topics starting with the basics of parallel and heterogeneous computing and an introduction to OpenCL, then progressing to more … Continue reading
Hardware Accelerated Web with AMD and Internet Explorer 9 Beta
I’ve blogged in the past about some of the features that Microsoft was working on for IE9 that developers should find exciting. Today those features come closer to the mainstream as Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Beta for … Continue reading
3DNow!™ Instructions are Being Deprecated
AMD introduced the 3DNow! ™ instruction set back in the K6-2 days to do Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions, otherwise known as vectorized instructions. These were mainly used for graphics intensive applications and even audio processing. Since then, we … Continue reading
ADIT Episode #12: Introduction to AMD SimNow™
Do you ever wish that you had access to future processors with new technology features before they are even produced? Download AMD SimNow™ and get exactly that. This episode of the AMD Developer Inside Track featuresJuan Flores, Member of Technical … Continue reading
OpenCL™: A Nimble, Extendable Open Standard
AMD has made available the ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) v2.2 with full OpenCL™ 1.1 support to enable next-generation applications. Continue reading
OpenGL ES 2.0 Coming to a Desktop Near You
The Khronos Group developed OpenGL ES 2.0 to help bring modern graphics capabilities to mobile platforms. This API has been adopted by many embedded devices such as consoles, mobile phones, handheld computers, and vehicles. As a subset of the full … Continue reading
ADIT Episode #11: Intro to ACML
This is an introduction to the AMD Core Math Library that covers what it is, who it is for, what platforms it works on, and where to find support. Continue reading
AMD Launches Treasure Hunt Contest in Second Life
As part of its virtual developer outreach program, AMD is hosting a new scavenger hunt in Second Life! Starting July 12, 2010, visitors to AMD Dev Central Island will discover a number of randomly placed interactive game kiosks. These kiosks … 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
Just Released: Open64 v4.2.4
The x86 Open64 Compiler Suite has an extensive set of optimizations that help you generate high-performance multi-threaded applications for x86 processors. This latest release is AMD’s third release and improves performance optimizations, adds features, improves compatibility and fixes a number … Continue reading
