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Did you know that AMD CodeAnalyst Performance Profiler supports OpenCL?

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:29:35 -0500

Watch this webinar to learn more.

Shared Level-1 Instruction-cache Performance on AMD family 15h (aka "Bulldozer")

Fri, 3 Feb 2012 12:13:56 -0500

AMD family 15h-class CPUs use a new micro-architecture that, under specific circumstances, leads to different performance characteristics compared to previous processor generations. This white paper describes the nature of instruction-cache cross-invalidations, symptoms and detection methods, as well as a number of provisions to ensure optimal performance in this micro-architecture.

AMD Developer Central Newsletter: January 2012 edition

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:29:14 -0500

IN THIS ISSUE:

»	Next-Gen Innovators Needed – Apply with your best ideas
»	Just Released: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) SDK v2.3 (formerly ATI Stream SDK)
»	Introducing the AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing Math Libraries
»	OpenCL™ – Work-Groups and Synchronization

JPEG Decoding with Run-Length Encoding: A CPU and GPU Approach

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:24:34 -0500

In this paper we present a Run-Length Encoding (RLE) JPEG sample, which is a heterogeneous application that splits an image decompression process into two parts: one CPU-based and the other GPU-based.

SlotMaximizer extension to LLVM can help you to quickly optimize OpenCL (TM) applications

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:07:22 -0500

SlotMaximizer is a transformation tool that automatically tunes OpenCL™ kernels, helping to increase developer productivity. It aids developers to obtain increased performance, higher throughput, and better hardware utilization from their kernels with minimal effort while maintaining a small, readable and maintainable code base. SlotMaximizer enables developers to focus on their original problems and algorithm strategies and leave the details of optimizing the code to the compiler.

Software Optimization Guide for family 15h processors

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:40:35 -0500

This guide provides optimization information and recommendations for AMD Family 15h processors. These optimizations are designed to yield software code that is fast, compact, and efficient. Toward this end, the optimizations in each of the following chapters are listed in order of importance.

Leverage Aparapi to Help Improve Financial Java Application Performance

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:28:43 -0500

AMD recently announced the open source release of the Aparapi project. Aparapi aims at improving Java application performance by offloading data parallel operations to an OpenCL™ capable device such as a GPU.

Just Released: CodeAnalyst 3.2 for Linux

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:30:20 -0500

AMD CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer for Linux is an open source, front-end graphical user interface to Oprofile. The graphical user interface simplifies the process of collecting performance data and enhances data analysis. Profiles are shown in both tabular and chart form. Users can drill down from system-level processes and modules to source code or instructions.

AMD Developer Central Newsletter: December 2011 edition

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:24:53 -0500

In this issue:

»	Speak at AFDS 2012!
»	Tiled convolution: Fast Image Filtering
»	OpenCL Programming Webinar Series
»	Upcoming Sponsored Events

Just Released: AMD APP SDK 2.6

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:23:12 -0500

The AMD APP SDK v2.6 with OpenCL™ 1.1 support uses the OpenCL™ ICD (Installable Client Driver) as part of the software stack. Code written with beta releases of the ATI Stream SDK v2.0 requires changes to comply with the OpenCL™ ICD requirements.

Just released: AMD APP KernelAnalyzer 1.11

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:22:05 -0500

AMD APP KernelAnalyzer is a static analysis tool to compile, analyze and disassemble an OpenCL, Brook+ or IL kernel for AMD Radeon™ GPUs. It gives you accurate performance estimates for your kernels and even allows you to view disassembly of the generated hardware kernel, all without having to run the application on actual hardware.

Just released: AMD APP Profiler 2.4

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:18:30 -0500

The AMD APP Profiler is a performance analysis tool that gathers data from the OpenCL™ run-time and AMD Radeon™ GPUs during the execution of an OpenCL™ application. We can then use this information to discover bottlenecks in an application and find ways to optimize the application’s performance for AMD platforms.

Just Released: x86 Open64 Compiler Suite 4.5.1

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:13:43 -0500

The x86 Open64 compiler system is a high performance, production quality code generation tool designed for high performance parallel computing workloads. The x86 Open64 environment provides the developer the essential choices when building and optimizing C, C++, and Fortran applications targeting 32-bit and 64-bit Linux platforms