AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools

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Post by johnrdavisjr » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 12:15 PM UTC

AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools
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Re: AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools

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Post by dagw » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 12:31 PM UTC

Actual announcement: http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-newsArtic...

Link to the new debugger: http://developer.amd.com/tools/gDEBugger/Pages/default.aspx

Re: AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools

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Post by jedbrown » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 12:47 PM UTC

dagw wrote: post #2

Actual announcement: http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-newsArtic... Link to the new debugger: http://developer.amd.com/tools/gDEBugger/Pages/default.aspx

The debugger requires Visual Studio, bummer.

Re: AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools

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Post by rbanffy » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 1:09 PM UTC

AMD's GPU support for Linux has always been spotty. How much does this depend on their hardware drivers?

Re: AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools

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Post by dman » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 1:12 PM UTC

jedbrown wrote: post #3

dagw wrote: post #2

Actual announcement: http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-newsArtic... Link to the new debugger: http://developer.amd.com/tools/gDEBugger/Pages/default.aspx

The debugger requires Visual Studio, bummer.

gDEBugger was a cross platform opengl/opencl debugger before amd bought them. I am surprised/disappointed to see them offer only a windows version.

Re: AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools

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Post by masklinn » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 2:07 PM UTC

Wait, wasn't Microsoft's OpenCL alternative DirectCompute?

Re: AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools

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Post by j_baker » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 3:36 PM UTC

Task Manager API: A framework to manage scheduling kernels across devices

This makes me wonder... how useful is the GPU for kernel development?

Re: AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools

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Post by namaxwell » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 3:38 PM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #4

AMD's GPU support for Linux has always been spotty. How much does this depend on their hardware drivers?

I don't know, but in my experience, almost all HPC (scientific computing, seismic imaging, etc) work is done in linux environments. So what gives?

Re: AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools

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Post by snippyhollow » Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 3:47 PM UTC

j_baker wrote: post #7

Task Manager API: A framework to manage scheduling kernels across devices This makes me wonder... how useful is the GPU for kernel development?

I think they meant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU#Kernels

Re: AMD announces new OpenCL programming tools

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Post by rmjb » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 8:28 AM UTC

j_baker wrote: post #7

Task Manager API: A framework to manage scheduling kernels across devices This makes me wonder... how useful is the GPU for kernel development?

If you mean OS Kernels, rather than OpenCL kernels as snippyhollow pointed, you might want to look at http://code.google.com/p/kgpu/