by Rys, 11th June 2008
A couple of companies producing software solutions that target the GPU and CPU for general purpose programming acceleration have announced partnerships with AMD. RapidMind is the more well-known of the two, with a recent press release highlighting support for RV670 in their Multi-Core Development Platform. The software platform lets developers developer write-once, run-many applications accelerated by a range of multi-core processors that their runtime can target. In the press release, Patricia Harrell, AMD Director of Stream Computing -- surely one of the more interesting positions in the industry at large right now -- makes note that the platform targets both AMD CPUs and GPUs. Multi-socket, multi-core Opteron, and multi-GPU Radeon or FireStream with RapidMind layered on top would certainly be one of the more interesting development platforms right now. Outfitted with upcoming Radeon products, it'd be possible to easily build single machines with those components that feature peak floating point rates in the 2Tflop+ range for single precision, with leading single-box DP rates on top via both GPU and CPU.
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