Tag: amd
Future AMD APU’s to Boost in Performance through Improved GPGPU Design Architecture
National Science Foundation and AMD have funded a research over at North Carolina State University where engineers have successfully obtained an average of 21.4 percent more performance through improving the design of an fused processor.
AMD VP Joe Macri keynote on Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA)
AMD engineers were working towards making the processing capability of the company’s accelerated processing units (APUs) as accessible to programmers as the CPU is today using heterogeneous systems architecture (HSA)
Heterogeneous Systems Architecture: AMD Dumps “Fusion” Brand
Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday that from now on it would call its Fusion system architecture (FSA) as heterogeneous system architecture (HSA).
AMD Released APP SDK v2.6 with preview of a subset of the OpenCL 1.2 functionality
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.
AMD: GPGPU Accelerators in CPU Sockets Make No Sense
Advanced Micro Devices said that making special-purpose GPU-based accelerators compatible with CPU sockets makes no sense. The approach proposed by AMD is vastly different from the one that is allegedly offered by its arch-rival, Intel.
Penguin Computing Deploys World’s First HPC Cluster Based on AMD Accelerated Processing Units at Sandia
Penguin Computing’s new Altus 2A00 Server Platform enables Sandia to leverage the benefits of the APU’s combined GPU-CPU architecture
Details Leaked on AMD Next Gen APU “Trinity”
Details were leaked concerning AMD’s next generation APU, called Trinity. The slide does not reveal specifications, it’s merely an overview of Trinity
Performance and Power Analysis of AMD GPU cards
We present a comprehensive study on the performance and power consumption of a recent ATI GPU. By employing a rigorous statistical model to analyze execution behaviors of representative general-purpose GPU (GPGPU) applications, we conduct insightful investigations on the target GPU architecture.
Performance Characterization and Optimization of Atomic Operations on AMD GPUs
In this paper, we first quantify the performance impact of atomic instructions to application kernels on AMD GPUs. We then propose a novel software-based implementation of atomic operations that can significantly improve the overall kernel performance.
Professional GPUs in 2011: Nvidia vs AMD
Choosing the right professional GPU isn’t easy. For our most comprehensive group test of graphics cards yet, Jason Lewisputs 14 of Nvidia and AMD’s current contenders through a battery of real-world tests. This time around, he will be looking at Nvidia’s current crop of Quadro cards, based on its Fermi architecture, as well as two new contenders from AMD.
