'We believe that OpenCL is a step in the right direction and we fully support this effort. 'An open industry standard programming specification will help drive broad-based support for stream computing technology in mainstream applications,' said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Product Group, AMD. The OpenCL specification can help provide developers with an easy path to development across multiple platforms. This working group's goals include developing industry standards for data parallel programming and working with proposed specifications like OpenCL. In keeping with its open systems philosophy, AMD has also joined the Khronos Compute Working Group. AMD offers published interfaces for its high-level language API, intermediate language, and instruction set architecture and the AMD Stream SDK's Brook+ front-end is available as open source code. AMD takes an open-systems approach to its stream computing development environment to ensure that developers can access and build on the tools at any level. The AMD FireStream 9250's compact size makes it ideal for small 1U servers as well as most desktop systems, workstations, and larger servers and it features 1GB of GDDR3 memory, enabling developers to handle large, complex problems.ĭriving broad consumer adoption with open systemsĪMD enables development of the FireStream family of processors with its AMD Stream SDK, designed to help developers create accelerated applications for AMD FireStream, ATI FireGL and ATI Radeon GPUs.

The AMD FireStream 9250 stream processor includes a second-generation double-precision floating point hardware implementation delivering more than 200 gigaflops, building on the capabilities of the earlier AMD FireStream 9170, the industry's first GP-GPU with double-precision floating point support. Additionally, the use of flexible GPU technology rather than custom accelerators assists those creating application-specific systems to enhance and maintain their solutions easily. For example, developers are reporting up to a 55x performance increase on financial analysis codes as compared to processing on the CPU alone, which supports their efforts to make better and faster decisions. It occupies a single PCI slot, for unmatched density and with power consumption of less than 150 watts, the AMD FireStream 9250 delivers an unprecedented rate of performance per watt efficiency with up to eight gigaflops per watt.Ĭustomers can leverage AMD's latest FireStream offering to run critical workloads such as financial analysis or seismic processing dramatically faster than with CPU alone, helping them to address more complex problems and achieve faster results. Leveraging the GPU design expertise of AMD's Graphics Product Group, AMD FireStream 9250 breaks the one teraflop barrier for single precision performance. At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD today introduced its next-generation stream processor, the AMD FireStream 9250, specifically designed to accelerate critical algorithms in high-performance computing (HPC), mainstream and consumer applications.

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