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Dears at AMD, From my own private perspective (hacker/developer !gamer) nvidia is providing a comprehensive toolkit and documentation for developing on top of

by tzury 16y ago

Dears at AMD, From my own private perspective (hacker/developer !gamer) nvidia is providing a comprehensive toolkit and documentation for developing on top of the GPU platform (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpucomputing.html http://developer.nvidia.com/object/gpucomputing.html) Do you have the same?

Tichy 16y ago
ATI Stream SDK
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- Retric 16y ago
  AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) SDK (formerly ATI Stream) http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/Pages/default.aspx http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/Pages/default.aspx
microarchitect 16y ago
You're right that AMD has traditionally been a little behind NVIDIA on the software side. Manju Hedge (of PhysX fame) is now leading a team at AMD that focuses exclusively on making the GPU computing as easy to use and as painless as possible, so hopefully things should improve over the next few months.
- tzury 16y ago
  I was not stating any opinions, rather asking an honest question. I was glad to discover that APP SDK, and will look at it quite soon, though the device in question is not yet listed in the supported devices page http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/pages/DriverCompatibi.. http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/pages/DriverCompatibi.... I find the GPU platform as an interesting field for R&D activity and perhaps, one day, I can even build a startup which takes advantage of this platform. Time will tell
  - trotsky 16y ago
    At the risk of stating the obvious, openCL seems to be their answer: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/stream-technology/opencl/Pages/opencl.aspx http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/stream-technolog... I'm not sure if you're saying those efforts aren't good enough (I wouldn't know). While I am sure nvidia produces more work effort in cuda, it seems that AMD is trying to treat OpenCL as a broad standard. In that way you expect a fair amount of information from Apple regarding ObjC for example, but are probably OK with AMD not covering C++ that specifically.
ihodes 16y ago
AMD just began supporting OdenCL, but (of course; it's an NVIDIA thing) don't support CUDU.

by tzury 16y ago

Tichy 16y ago

ATI Stream SDK

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Retric 16y ago
AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) SDK (formerly ATI Stream) http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/Pages/default.aspx http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/Pages/default.aspx

microarchitect 16y ago

You're right that AMD has traditionally been a little behind NVIDIA on the software side. Manju Hedge (of PhysX fame) is now leading a team at AMD that focuses exclusively on making the GPU computing as easy to use and as painless as possible, so hopefully things should improve over the next few months.

tzury 16y ago
I was not stating any opinions, rather asking an honest question. I was glad to discover that APP SDK, and will look at it quite soon, though the device in question is not yet listed in the supported devices page http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/pages/DriverCompatibi.. http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/pages/DriverCompatibi.... I find the GPU platform as an interesting field for R&D activity and perhaps, one day, I can even build a startup which takes advantage of this platform. Time will tell
- trotsky 16y ago
  At the risk of stating the obvious, openCL seems to be their answer: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/stream-technology/opencl/Pages/opencl.aspx http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/stream-technolog... I'm not sure if you're saying those efforts aren't good enough (I wouldn't know). While I am sure nvidia produces more work effort in cuda, it seems that AMD is trying to treat OpenCL as a broad standard. In that way you expect a fair amount of information from Apple regarding ObjC for example, but are probably OK with AMD not covering C++ that specifically.

ihodes 16y ago

AMD just began supporting OdenCL, but (of course; it's an NVIDIA thing) don't support CUDU.