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Submission + - OpenCL has a competitor: Microsoft C++ AMP (pcper.com)

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Phopojijo

on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @06:41PM

Phopojijo writes: "Microsoft was at AMD's Fusion Developer Summit with a keynote this morning outlining Microsoft's part in the unified computing initiative. Currently your options for easily utilizing all your computing power are limited to Apple-founded OpenCL maintained by the Khronos Group. Microsoft's alternative is called C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (or C++ AMP). Microsoft was clear to announce that C++ AMP would be an open specification. Any interested compiler developer would be allowed to support this specification."

Submission + - AMD A-Series Llano APU Platform Review (pcper.com)

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Phopojijo

on Monday June 13, 2011 @11:38PM

Phopojijo writes: "AMD kicked off their AMD Fusion Developer Summit 2011 today and reviews of their new Llano APU are starting to trickle out. The thought is that combining a GPU on the CPU decreases the barrier to entry to having a decent GPU in your system. While the CPU performance seemed to be a bit behind Intel's offering the GPU performance is definitely a step or more above Intel's offering."

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