I'm a member of AMD's software division (and yes, you read it correctly - I said software).  It turns out that a lot of people are surprised to hear that AMD has a software division.  I can't count the number of times that we've been at tradeshows showing off the AMD CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer or our Performance Libraries and people have wondered why the heck AMD was at a software developer conference.  The answer is simple; you can't run the hardware without software.  We have a significant investment in software within AMD and with our software partners.  I've vowed to do my part to get you behind-the-scenes, one-on-one time with AMD software developers and our software partners' to get the scoop on what AMD is doing that would matter to software developers. 

The first installment of the AMD Developer Inside Track is available now.  This one features a panel of our software developer tools partners from Allinea, Pervasive and Rogue Wave talking about taking advantage of multi-core processing.  I was able to pull them aside after the CommunityOne West 2009 Multicore Panel sponsored by AMD.  Check out the video, Tracy Carver's blog, and the slides that were presented. 

Next month we will be talking with Michael Houston about OpenCL.  And we have a multitude of topics planned for the rest of the year.  If you have a topic in mind, let us know by making a comment on this blog post, or on our forums. 

-Sharon Troia, Sr. Developer Relations Engineer

ps.  If you are experience any viewing problems, please let me know.  We will be adding some different formats, lower resolution versions to  download, as well as the transcripts over the next two weeks.

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"If you are experience any viewing problems, please let me know.  We will be adding some different formats, lower resolution versions to  download, as well as the transcripts over the next two weeks."

I use gnash instead of flash (neatly avoids the security holes by not being Adobe's player), but the linked video doesn't work with it; I only get 'You need to upgrade your Flash Player to version 9 or newer.'

Since you mentioned other formats; is a Theora vid (inside the now (in?)famous video tag?) in the works perchance? Please?

Looking forward to seeing this and the OpenCL talk; I'm a theoretical physicist, so more flops are always welcome.

How about a tour of the ACML, and using it efficiently from C? Perhaps with some MPI thrown in to the mix?

Thanks!

Thanks Joseph - we are fixing the flash error problem now, thanks for bringing it to our attention, it should be working now.

I'll look into Theora vid as a possible option to download.

The OpenCL talk is pretty high level, but we will be doing more that drill down further.  Glad to hear you are interested in the topic!

I've received quite a few quests for ACML.  I'll bump that up in priority and try to touch on the specifics that you mention. 

Thanks for your input!

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