{"id":11696,"date":"2014-08-26T15:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/?p=11696"},"modified":"2014-08-26T15:26:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:26:25","slug":"amd-announces-heterogeneous-c-amp-language-for-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/11696-amd-announces-heterogeneous-c-amp-language-for-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD<\/span> Announces Heterogeneous C++ AMP<\/span> Language for Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"

First open source C++ imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon to see broad avai\u00adla\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty across Linux, Win\u00addows and other platforms<\/em><\/p>\n

SUNNYVALE<\/span>, Calif. 8\/26\/2014<\/div>\n
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\u200bAMD<\/span><\/a> (NYSE<\/span>: AMD<\/span>) in col\u00adla\u00adbo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon with Micro\u00adsoft\u00ae (NASDAQ<\/span>: MSFT<\/span>) today announ\u00adced the release of C++ AMP<\/span> ver\u00adsi\u00adon 1.2 \u2013 an open source C++ com\u00adpi\u00adler which imple\u00adments ver\u00adsi\u00adon 1.2 of the open spe\u00adci\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon for C++ AMP<\/span>, available on both Linux and Win\u00addows for the first time. The release repres\u00adents ano\u00adther step for\u00adward toward AMD<\/span>\u2019s goal of sup\u00adport\u00ading cross-plat\u00adform solu\u00adti\u00adons, mul\u00adti\u00adple pro\u00adgramming lan\u00adguages and con\u00adtin\u00adued con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adti\u00adons to the open source com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty. The tool, which lever\u00ada\u00adges Clang and LLVM<\/span>, acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adtes pro\u00adduc\u00adti\u00advi\u00adty and ease of use for deve\u00adlo\u00adpers wis\u00adhing to harness the full power of modern hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous plat\u00adforms span\u00adning ser\u00advers, PCs and hand\u00adheld devices.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>AMD<\/span> has a con\u00adsis\u00adtent track record of enri\u00adching the deve\u00adlo\u00adper expe\u00adri\u00adence, and we\u2019re proud to make the first open source imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon of C++ AMP<\/span> available to enable grea\u00adter per\u00adfor\u00admance and more power-effi\u00adci\u00adent appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons,\u201d said Man\u00adju Heg\u00adde, cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adte vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent, Hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous Appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons and Solu\u00adti\u00adons, AMD<\/span>. \u201cThe cross-plat\u00adform release is ano\u00adther step in streng\u00adthening AMD<\/span>\u2019s deve\u00adlo\u00adper solu\u00adti\u00adons, allo\u00adwing for increased pro\u00adduc\u00adti\u00advi\u00adty and acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons through shared phy\u00adsi\u00adcal memo\u00adry across the CPU<\/span> and GPU<\/span> on both Linux and Windows.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>AMD<\/span> con\u00adti\u00adnues to deli\u00adver excel\u00adlent deve\u00adlo\u00adper tools for hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous pro\u00adgramming. Part\u00adne\u00adring with AMD<\/span> to deli\u00adver C++ AMP<\/span> to the Linux and Open Source com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties was a natu\u00adral step for Micro\u00adsoft as we work to impro\u00adve the per\u00adfor\u00admance and deve\u00adlo\u00adper expe\u00adri\u00adence on modern com\u00adpu\u00adting plat\u00adforms,\u201d said S. Soma\u00adse\u00adgar, cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adte vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent of the Deve\u00adlo\u00adper Divi\u00adsi\u00adon at Microsoft.<\/p>\n

C++ AMP<\/span> ver\u00adsi\u00adon 1.2 enables C++ deve\u00adlo\u00adpers to acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adte appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons across a broad set of hard\u00adware and soft\u00adware con\u00adfi\u00adgu\u00adra\u00adti\u00adons by sup\u00adport\u00ading three outputs:<\/p>\n