AMD showcases Next-Gen APU Software at Developer Summit

AMD has announced that it is enabling its accelerated processing units (APU) for next-generation servers through important advancements in software tools developed by AMD and in collaboration with technology partners and the open-source community. In his keynote address at APU13, AMD Corporate Fellow Phil Rogers highlighted the significant progress AMD has made in both developing software internally and empowering others to develop software to take advantage of the capabilities of AMD APU technology, which combines industry-leading AMD Radeon graphics processing engines with x86 computational processing on a single chip.
 
Software applications that leverage server APUs are designed to drive highly efficient, low-power, dense server solutions optimized for highly parallel and multimedia workloads. We have evolved our processor roadmap to support this opportunity, and now we are showcasing how the APU software ecosystem is gaining momentum and what developers can do to participate, said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, Corporate Vice-President & General Manager of the Server Business Unit, AMD.
 
AMD is collaborating with its technology partners and the open-source community to provide developers with tools that enable them to build server applications that utilize both CPU and GPU compute capabilities available in its revolutionary HAS-based server APUs.
 
APU13 also featured sessions that highlight how server APUs can be used to optimize a variety of data center workloads. In addition, sessions will be hosted by Microsoft, highlighting C++ AMP and RemoteFX technologies; AccelerEyes, showcasing the use of libraries to enable heterogeneous computing; and HP, providing an overview of its HP Moonshot dense server environment for hosted desktop.
 
AMD has also announced a new unified SDK, tools and accelerated libraries for heterogeneous computing developers.