Items tagged with heterogeneous

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Apr 30, 2013

AMD Announces hUMA, Heterogeneous Uniform Memory Access For Future APUs

The dawn of GPU computing came about in large part due to the immense gap in compute performance between traditional CPUs and programmable GPUs. Whereas CPUs excel with serial workloads, modern GPUs perform best with highly parallel operations. If you look at the slide below, it shows an array of Intel processors... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Jun 15, 2011

Microsoft Demos C++ AMP Heterogeneous Computing at AMD's Fusion Developer Summit

The second day of the AMD Fusion Developer Summit began with a keynote from Microsoft’s Herb Sutter, Principal Architect, Native Languages and resident C++ guru. The gist of Herb’s talk centered around heterogeneous computing and the changes coming with future versions of Visual Studio and C++. One of the... Read more...