TechEnablment spoke with the AMD engineers at SC15 about the HIP (Heterogeneous-compute Interface for Portability) tool for porting CUDA-based applications to a common C++ programming model that can run on AMD FirePro™ graphics processing units (GPUs). AMD demonstrated the potential for HIP by running the CUDA-generated Rodinia benchmark suite on AMD GPUs. The tagline is "It's … [Read more...]
AMD Introduces an ARM64 Development Kit $2999
AMD is now accepting applications for the AMD Opteron™ A1100 Series 64-bit ARM Developers kit, which supports the RedHat ARM Partner Early Access Program for software and hardware developers as well as early adopters in large datacenters. The development kit provides the hardware and software needed to begin application development and evaluate the A1100 Series processors. … [Read more...]