{"id":5536,"date":"2013-11-12T08:29:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T07:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2013-11-12T08:29:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T07:29:17","slug":"amd-announces-new-unified-sdk-tools-and-accelerated-libraries-for-heterogeneous-computing-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/5536-amd-announces-new-unified-sdk-tools-and-accelerated-libraries-for-heterogeneous-computing-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> Announces New Unified <span class=\"caps\">SDK<\/span>, Tools and Accelerated Libraries for Heterogeneous Computing Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir><em><span class=\"caps\">APU13<\/span> ser\u00adves as launch plat\u00adform for new deve\u00adlo\u00adper tools and sheds light on upco\u00adming third gene\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon <span class=\"caps\">APU<\/span>, \u201cKaveri\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em><br>\n<\/em><br>\n<strong><span class=\"caps\">SUNNYVALE<\/span>, Calif.&nbsp;\u201411\/11\/2013&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/\"><span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span><\/a> (<span class=\"caps\">NYSE<\/span>: <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>) kicked off its 2013 Deve\u00adlo\u00adper Sum\u00admit (<span class=\"caps\">APU13<\/span>) today, announ\u00adcing a new uni\u00adfied Soft\u00adware Deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment Kit (<span class=\"caps\">SDK<\/span>,) an impro\u00adved CodeXL tool suite with added fea\u00adtures and sup\u00adport for the latest <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> hard\u00adware, and added hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon in popu\u00adlar Open Source libra\u00adri\u00ades. Tog\u00ade\u00adther, <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amd.com\/tools-and-sdks\/heterogeneous-computing\/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk\/downloads\/\">the\u00adse tools<\/a> pro\u00advi\u00adde a sub\u00adstan\u00adti\u00adal step for\u00adward in 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 form ser\u00advers to PCs to hand\u00adheld devices.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>Deve\u00adlo\u00adpers are essen\u00adti\u00adal to our mis\u00adsi\u00adon of rea\u00adli\u00adzing the full poten\u00adti\u00adal of modern com\u00adpu\u00adting tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies,\u201d said Man\u00adju Heg\u00adde, cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adte vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent, Hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous Solu\u00adti\u00adons, <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>. \u201cEnri\u00adching the deve\u00adlo\u00adper expe\u00adri\u00adence by harnes\u00adsing the\u00adse tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies is a cri\u00adti\u00adcal part of <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s mis\u00adsi\u00adon to acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adte deve\u00adlo\u00adper adoption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To achie\u00adve this com\u00admon mis\u00adsi\u00adon, <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> is announ\u00adcing impro\u00adve\u00adments across four fronts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The uni\u00adfied <span class=\"caps\">SDK<\/span> includes <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">APP<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">SDK<\/span> 2.9 and is the most user-fri\u00adend\u00adly hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous com\u00adpu\u00adting <span class=\"caps\">SDK<\/span> yet. It pro\u00advi\u00addes impro\u00adved ease-of-use and deve\u00adlo\u00adper pro\u00adduc\u00adti\u00advi\u00adty by adding seve\u00adral new capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties. This is <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s first step toward pro\u00advi\u00adding deve\u00adlo\u00adpers with simp\u00adle access to all the pro\u00adgramma\u00adble com\u00adpon\u00adents of the company\u2019s pro\u00adducts. Some of the sali\u00adent fea\u00adtures are: a Web-based sam\u00adple brow\u00adser that makes it easy to find the right samples for a pro\u00adject; added sup\u00adport for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmake.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CMake<\/a> \u2013 a popu\u00adlar make uti\u00adli\u00adty; impro\u00adved Open\u00adCL\u2122 source editing with a plug-in to visu\u00adal stu\u00addio; and the addi\u00adti\u00adon of seve\u00adral new samples high\u00adlight\u00ading use of opti\u00admi\u00adzed open source libra\u00adri\u00ades (Open\u00adCV, Bolt) to get acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon with mini\u00admal effort.<\/li>\n<li>The uni\u00adfied <span class=\"caps\">SDK<\/span> also includes the Media <span class=\"caps\">SDK<\/span> v1.0 beta release. This will be <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s first public release of the Media <span class=\"caps\">SDK<\/span>, which enables deve\u00adlo\u00adpers to levera\u00adge <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s uni\u00adque and dif\u00adfe\u00adren\u00adtia\u00adted mul\u00adti\u00adme\u00addia capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties. Some of the key fea\u00adtures of the Media <span class=\"caps\">SDK<\/span> are a GPU-acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted video pre\/post pro\u00adces\u00adsing libra\u00adry and a libra\u00adry for low laten\u00adcy video encoding.<\/li>\n<li>The uni\u00adfied <span class=\"caps\">SDK<\/span> also pro\u00admo\u00adtes new hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon opti\u00admiza\u00adti\u00adons in seve\u00adral open source libra\u00adri\u00ades with the goal of making it simp\u00adle for deve\u00adlo\u00adpers to acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adte appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons. The\u00adse include:&nbsp; Open\u00adCV (most popu\u00adlar com\u00adpu\u00adter visi\u00adon libra\u00adry) now with many Open\u00adCL&nbsp; acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted func\u00adtions; clMath with acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted <span class=\"caps\">BLAS<\/span> and <span class=\"caps\">FFT<\/span> libra\u00adri\u00ades acces\u00adsi\u00adble from For\u00adtran, C and C++; and Bolt, a C++ tem\u00adp\u00adla\u00adte libra\u00adry pro\u00advi\u00adding <span class=\"caps\">GPU<\/span> off-load for com\u00admon data-par\u00adal\u00adlel algo\u00adrith\u00adms, now with cross-OS sup\u00adport as well as per\u00adfor\u00admance impro\u00adve\u00adments and new functionality.<\/li>\n<li>The latest CodeXL tools suite (ver\u00adsi\u00adon 1.3,) <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsi\u00adve hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous deve\u00adlo\u00adper tool offe\u00adring, now sup\u00adports Java, the world\u2019s most popu\u00adlar pro\u00adgramming lan\u00adguage. To fur\u00adther <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s efforts to pro\u00advi\u00adde the best inte\u00adgra\u00adted tool suite, <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> has incor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adted sta\u00adtic ker\u00adnel ana\u00adly\u00adsis capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties. Also included in this release are added sup\u00adport for remo\u00adte debugging\/profiling to enable ser\u00adver and embedded cus\u00adto\u00admers as well as sup\u00adport for the latest <span class=\"caps\">GPU<\/span> pro\u00adducts from <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> (GCN-based dis\u00adcrete GPUs and&nbsp;APUs.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> con\u00adti\u00adnues to deli\u00adver excel\u00adlent hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous pro\u00adgramming deve\u00adlo\u00adper tools for Open\u00adCL\u2122 \u2013 the indus\u00adtry stan\u00addard for hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous pro\u00adgramming,\u201d said Bill Richard, vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent of Soft\u00adware Deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment at Win\u00adzip. \u201c<span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s tools have been instru\u00admen\u00adtal in our efforts to deli\u00adver signi\u00adfi\u00adcant appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon per\u00adfor\u00admance impro\u00adve\u00adments to our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00adse new pro\u00adduct releases repre\u00adsent ano\u00adther step for\u00adward toward <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s goals of sup\u00adport\u00ading cross-plat\u00adform solu\u00adti\u00adons (across OSes and ven\u00addors,) mul\u00adti\u00adple pro\u00adgramming lan\u00adguages and con\u00adtin\u00adued con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adti\u00adons to the Open Source com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty. This is part of <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s ongo\u00ading com\u00admit\u00adment to make hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous com\u00adpu\u00adting per\u00adva\u00adsi\u00adve and mainstream.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> also announ\u00adced today at <span class=\"caps\">APU13<\/span> details about \u201cKaveri,\u201d the third gene\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon per\u00adfor\u00admance <span class=\"caps\">APU<\/span> from <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>, during a key\u00adnote deli\u00adver\u00aded by Dr. Lisa Su, seni\u00ador vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent and gene\u00adral mana\u00adger, Glo\u00adbal Busi\u00adness Units, <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>Kaveri\u201d is the first <span class=\"caps\">APU<\/span> with <span class=\"caps\">HSA<\/span> fea\u00adtures, <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> TrueAu\u00addio tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy and <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s Man\u00adt\u00adle <span class=\"caps\">API<\/span> com\u00adbi\u00adning to bring the next level of gra\u00adphics, com\u00adpu\u00adte and effi\u00adci\u00aden\u00adcy to desk\u00adtops (<span class=\"caps\">FM2<\/span>+), note\u00adbooks, embedded APUs and ser\u00advers.&nbsp; <span class=\"caps\">FM2<\/span>+ ship\u00adments to cus\u00adto\u00admers are sla\u00adted to begin in late 2013 with initi\u00adal avai\u00adla\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty in cus\u00adto\u00admer desk\u00adtop offe\u00adrings sche\u00addu\u00adled for Jan. 14, 2014. Fur\u00adther details will be announ\u00adced at <span class=\"caps\">CES<\/span>&nbsp;2014.<\/p>\n<p>In addi\u00adti\u00adon to the \u201cKaveri\u201d announce\u00adment, Dr. Su high\u00adligh\u00adted <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s lea\u00adder\u00adship in <span class=\"caps\">APU<\/span> tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy and hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous com\u00adpu\u00adte capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties, and dis\u00adcus\u00adsed the deve\u00adlo\u00adper-cen\u00adtric future of <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy. With gra\u00adphics, gam\u00ading, per\u00adfor\u00admance mobi\u00adle cli\u00adents and embedded devices gro\u00adwing in pre\u00adva\u00adlence, <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> is at the epi\u00adcen\u00adter of this con\u00adver\u00adgence, and is equip\u00adped with the neces\u00adsa\u00adry <span class=\"caps\">IP<\/span> to exe\u00adcu\u00adte on this oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty for our cus\u00adto\u00admers. To enable the\u00adse gro\u00adwing eco\u00adsys\u00adtems, Dr. Su made com\u00admit\u00adments to con\u00adti\u00adnue sup\u00adport\u00ading pro\u00adgramming tools and plat\u00adforms like Hete\u00adro\u00adge\u00adneous Sys\u00adtem Archi\u00adtec\u00adtu\u00adre (<span class=\"caps\">HSA<\/span>), Man\u00adt\u00adle, Open\u00adCL, C++ <span class=\"caps\">AMP<\/span> and Micro\u00adsoft DirectX\u00ae that are important to appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon and game developers.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Supporting Resources<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Access the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amd.com\/tools-and-sdks\/heterogeneous-computing\/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk\/downloads\/\">tools, SDKs and libraries<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For more details, <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amd.com\/community\/blog\/\">see blogs<\/a> from <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>\u2019s tech\u00adni\u00adcal&nbsp;staff<\/li>\n<li>Learn how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/press-releases\/Pages\/amd-enables-server-2013nov11.aspx\"><span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> is enab\u00adling ser\u00adver <span class=\"caps\">APU<\/span> software<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amd.com\/apu\/\">2013 <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> Deve\u00adlo\u00adper Sum\u00admit,&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">APU13<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>View <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.amd.com\/apu\/home\/afds12-video-highlights\/\">high\u00adlights from 2012 <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> Deve\u00adlo\u00adper Summit<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For the latest <span class=\"caps\">APU13<\/span> updates, fol\u00adlow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/AMD\" target=\"_blank\">@<span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Beco\u00adme a fan of <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AMD\" target=\"_blank\">Face\u00adbook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">About <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> (<span class=\"caps\">NYSE<\/span>: <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span>) designs and inte\u00adgra\u00adtes tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy that powers mil\u00adli\u00adons of intel\u00adli\u00adgent devices, inclu\u00adding per\u00adso\u00adnal com\u00adpu\u00adters, tablets, game con\u00adso\u00adles and cloud ser\u00advers that defi\u00adne the new era of sur\u00adround com\u00adpu\u00adting. <span class=\"caps\">AMD<\/span> solu\u00adti\u00adons enable peo\u00adp\u00adle ever\u00ady\u00adwhe\u00adre to rea\u00adli\u00adze the full poten\u00adti\u00adal of their favo\u00adri\u00adte devices and appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons to push the boun\u00adda\u00adries of what is pos\u00adsi\u00adble. For more infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\">www.amd.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"caps\">APU13<\/span> ser\u00adves as launch plat\u00adform for new deve\u00adlo\u00adper tools and sheds light on upco\u00adming third gene\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon <span class=\"caps\">APU<\/span>, \u201cKaveri\u201d (\u2026) <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/5536-amd-announces-new-unified-sdk-tools-and-accelerated-libraries-for-heterogeneous-computing-developers\/\">Wei\u00adter\u00adle\u00adsen&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressemitteilungen","entry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5537,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions\/5537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}