AMD, MulticoreWare to help developers

SUNNYVALE, USA: AMD today announced a new collaboration with MulticoreWare, a software solutions and tool development for multi-core and heterogeneous computing environments, to deliver an advanced set of tools for OpenCL optimization.

The tools development effort accelerates software developers' ability to create and optimize software that fully exploits the unique processing capability of AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) said a press release.

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"Accelerated parallel processing represents unprecedented levels of computing capability in mobile form factors, and the tools suite that MulticoreWare is developing enables application developers to achieve this performance benefit with less effort," said Manju Hegde, corporate vice president, AMD Fusion Experience Program.

"Our work with MulticoreWare marks another milestone toward broad industry adoption of OpenCL as we equip developers with necessary tools to build innovative, next-generation applications ranging from consumer PCs to high-performance computing," added Hegde.

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"OpenCL is important as an industry-standard programming environment that enables developers to focus on applications, not just chip architecture,” said Professor Wen-Mei Hwu, chief technology officer, MulticoreWare.

He added, "With improved tools in place, developers will be able to optimize applications to run on powerful heterogeneous and multi-core architectures with ease, and take full advantage of programmable platforms."