AMD Announces ATI Stream SDK v1.4

The ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) is a complete development platform created by AMD to allow you to quickly and easily develop applications accelerated by ATI Stream Technology. The SDK allows you to develop your applications in a high-level language, ATI Brook+. The Brook+ compiler and runtime layer handle the low-level details for you so that you can concentrate on implementing your algorithms on the GPU. Brook+ is built on top of ATI Compute Abstraction Layer (CAL), which gives you low-level control and programmability of the hardware.

When combined with other AMD tools and libraries optimized for ATI Stream, the ATI Stream SDK offers a complete development platform for implementing, debugging and optimizing your applications to take advantage of the tremendous parallel computational power available with ATI Stream products.

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What’s New in v1.4-beta

• Significant feature enhancements to Brook+:
  • Support for multiple GPUs in a single program.
  • Support for 8-bit and 16-bit integer types.
  • Interoperability with DirectX API.
  • Access to thread-level data sharing.
  • Improved support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
• Performance enhancements to the Brook+ runtime:
  • Support for memory pinning to optimize data transfers.
  • Support for asynchronous stream write requests.
• Additional hardware features exposed in CAL:
  • Support for texture sampling (bilinear).
  • Support for FETCH4.
• Support for the ATI Radeon HD 4870X2 and 3870X2.
• Support for the ATI FirePro 3D V8750, V8700, V7770, V7750, V5700 and V3750.

Source: AMD